Sports Quotes

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed it.

I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

You expect success, you respect failure.

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean.

There's no substitute for guts.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

If somebody mistreats you, treat’em good. That kills’em.

I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.

My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car, all I listen to is sports talk.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.

The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.

If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.

What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.

Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game

I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.

Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.

I didn't like the way the game was being played.

The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that.

Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes? It's my heart that dictates my decision.'