Sports Quotes

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.

We're a team, and just by the nature of our sport, we're always promoted together. I think we are definitely two different people with two different personalities, but we're always linked.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If you do what you did yesterday you'll be beaten. If you do today what others are doing you'll be competitive. To win you much be doing today what others will be doing tomorrow.

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast program of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself.

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

I don’t believe for a second that weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, that’s indecision.

Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.

Character is what you do when no one is watching.

We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue really sets the social standard for what people expect the perfect woman's body to look like, and a lot of those bodies usually look the same.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

When you use the steroids, you use them for a long time. When you use the steroids for a long time, you have a problem. It’s a drug and it’s not good for the sport.

In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.

Don't talk too much or too soon.

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

Mathematics is not a spectator sport!

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

What's the difference between a three-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In six weeks, the puppy stops whining.

We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.

Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.