Sports Quotes

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

I don't want to leave the sport saying I could have run faster. I just want to be tapped out, like I gave it my all.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.

Golf isn't a sport, it's a game. I'm not saying it's not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it's not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do?

Pain is part of the sport.

If you're not nervous, it means you don't care.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you're not going to do anything special.

Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

Never have a club in your bag that you're afraid to hit.

Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils

If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.

Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.

It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

Sport climbing is a lot like sport f*#king. It's a lot of fun and requires no commitment.

Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.

I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

Playing sport has become very important today, since it can encourage young people to develop important values such as loyalty, perseverance, friendship, sharing and solidarity.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful.

I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.