Sports Quotes

I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.

I'll always be Number 1 to myself.

If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him

Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.

Running reminded me exactly who I am and what I am made of.

I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

This is a sport (wrestling) that has turned many boys into men and many men into leaders. And it is a sport in which you can be a giant regardless of how big you are.

High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.

I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic.

Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.

Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.

To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.

Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.

Doubters don't win, winners don't doubt.

A lot of people say they love running because of how they feel afterward. Not me. Well, I love that, too, but it's also so much fun while I'm out there.

You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

I can dribble with my right hand and I can dribble with my left hand. I'm amphibious.

The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of one's life finds a moment to emerge in the game.

We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.

Volleyball is like going to church ... many attend, but few understand.

We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.