Sports Quotes

You know, there's a rule in sports, "Don't do anything great if you can't handle the congratulations."

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.

My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.

The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

Remember praise is more valuable than blame.

Steroids are used in all sports.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

Be positive and work hard. I think it's possible to overcome anything, if you're willing to work at it.

I'm not God, but I am something similar.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

Macro worries are like sports talk radio. Everyone has a good opinion which probably means that none of them are good.

I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio.

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

A sports bar is a way to take a bar and fill it with even more annoying people than usual.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

The score never interested me, only the game.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.

Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

And I watch Saturday Night Live religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.

Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

I think at its best, sport does bring us together.

Swimming isn't everything - winning is.

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.