Sports Quotes

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

The only thing that counts is your dedication to the game. You run on your own fuel; it comes from within you.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

You've got to have dreams to keep you going.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose.

If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win

You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.

Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

Racquetball is the only sport where simultaneously you can be looking at the ball and it'll hit you in the back of the head at 90 miles per hour.

I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring.

If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.

When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!

I went through baseball as a player to be named later.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

I'm going to win it for my country. I'm the first Aboriginal to win this. Isn't that something? I wish my Dad was alive to see it. He'd be as proud as I am.

Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.

You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

Lacrosse is probably the best sport I ever played.

The game isn't over till it's over.

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

Football is like life and I know life.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

I am simply the very best sports entertainer