Sports Quotes

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

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

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

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

I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.

People do what they think works for them, but the sport is about instinct, movement, balance, power... it's too animalistic to get rigid about your training.

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

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

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.

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.

Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children.

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

I love the relays. Track is such an individual sport, so it's fun to do something together.

The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.

Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.

It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.

I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.

My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.

I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter.

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down.

My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.

I just made up my mind that I was going to lose my teeth and have my face cut to pieces.

I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park

Winning the world championship in '66 was really the pinnacle of the whole thing, because to win a championship with an Australian made engine was a fantastic feather in our cap.

You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.