Sports Quotes

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

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

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

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

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

Theatre sports is the best improv training period

I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me peace of mind.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!

The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't.

Sports don't matter in the grand scheme of things. But in the moment, when things are just right, they're the most important thing in the world. That's what makes them so great.

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.

In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.

The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.

The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level.

To become a champion, fight one more round.

I love the game. It's fun to play, period. I love running around and getting sweaty. I love trying to lead my team. I love facing the challenge of another team that's better.

Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.

It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.

I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.

Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it

If you can pick up a ground ball you'll play for any team you want.

I like playing frisbee. It is the only sport where you can throw something at a person and it's okay.

We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.

Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.

How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?

Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

Mario Balotelli is like Marmite, you either love him or hate him. Me? I'm in between.

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.

The most prepared are the most dedicated.

Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

I do good when people doubt me. When someone says I can't do something, I want to do more. I won't back down from anybody.

Life without sports is like life without underpants

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

The most important thing to do is to set goals. Training is a waste of time if you don't have goals.