Sports Quotes

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

It's all about chemistry. Talent alone won't get it done.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away.

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport.

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.

You mean in the state?

All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can for the rest of your life. It's kind of a lame thing to say, but it really is.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

When I win awards, I think of my father.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.

Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.

I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.

Coffee doesn't do it for me; it's running that gets me going.

The reason we call that pitch up and in is because the arms are attached to the shoulder.

When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.