Sports Quotes

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.

Many would argue that alpinism is art, not sport.

We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.

It sure made me feel good to be here today, and have so many people say so many kind things.

It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.

Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books

When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.

I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.

I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.

I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot of sports.

The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs.

Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun.

I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away.

I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.

I had to do something special coming in. I didn't do it, so I had to do it in the playoff. Winning the Mercedes is awesome. Winning three times is a dream come true.

I'd like to coach the Liberty. That's my dream. But maybe I'd coach a college team. Either way, I'd like to stay involved in sports and to coach.

Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself

It's hard to go out and practice every single day, and you get really tired. But you have to believe in yourself.

Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions.

I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses.

Sports was my entire life as long as I can remember.

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.

I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough.

A man tends to over-estimate what he can do in one year...and under-estimate what he can do in five.

When you look at other sports, like golf, the players earn a lot more money without running around.

That's the way I've been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don't have to think about them any more.

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

Morality is not a spectator sport.

The essence of sport is courage.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.

I treat golf as a sport. I let other people treat it like a hobby.

I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.

You don't know where a sport can take you, so I want to make sure that I have an education behind me in case things don't work out.

I love the history of the sport, I love the culture that surrounds it, and I never dreamed I'd become a fanatic. I'm such a fanatic now that I'm committed to competing.

I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport.

I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.