Sports Quotes

I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I have brought you to the ring, now you must dance.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport.

The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.

One shouldn't be afraid to lose; this is sport. One day you win; another day you lose. Of course, everyone wants to be the best. This is normal. This is what sport is about. This is why I love it.

I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

I have no regrets because I know I did my best - all I could do.

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

If you play to win as I do, the game never ends.

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

You can sum up this sport in two words: You never know.

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Sports are my passion and I really enjoy connecting with others who share my love of the game

The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

I like comedy as a group sport.

The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

Anyone can train hard. Do you have the discipline to recover?

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

Golfers are the greatest worriers in the world of sport.

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.

I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.