Sports Quotes

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes.

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

I don't need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet and I'll show you what I can do.

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

For one thing, Judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art and science. In fact, it is a means for personal cultural attainment.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

When you see a good move, look for a better one.

Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out.

Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.

IPL does not allow Pakistani players because they are dangerous.

Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable.

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

You play to win the game...Hello. You play to win the game.

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore.

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Jeep is America's only real sports car.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.