Sports Quotes

I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

The start is what stops most people.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.

The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

We have to do the impossible, but it is possible.

Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress.

That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of connecting with yourself and with nature.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

The Jeep is the only true American sports car.

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.

A detailed analysis of his four-putt at the 1986 Masters: I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I make.

Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.

I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me.

World War II was a must win.

I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

You know, I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport, you know for me it's just a way of life

Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

The film looks suspiciously like the game itself!

Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.

I believe you can do 99 percent of the things right but not possess a positive winning attitude, and you will fail.

All sports for all people.

I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.

Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.

I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.

Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.

The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to have that inner drive otherwise it's not going to work out.

Age doesn't make a difference either. Whether you're 20 or 70, you can still play together. There are so many different things you can do with golf that you can't do in other sports.