Sports Quotes

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time.

Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.

Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together.

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

The beauty of my sport is that you can do it from anywhere.

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

I've always had a great interest in sports that embody the values of commitment, hard work and teamwork - all values I strongly believe in.

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen

It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

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.'

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one

Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.

The one man team is a complete and total myth.

The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

I fight for perfection

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

No one did what I did last season and for this, I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the best World Player award?

There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time its been a compliment to me.

Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful - it doesn't matter who scores the goals as long as we're winning.

It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice.

Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as **** fighting and dog fighting. We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States.

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

Not really, and actually my cholesterol was 190 when I had the heart attack. 190, which isn't that high. I took it down to about 130 and it's probably about 140 or 145 now.

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

Succeeding in sport is about how much practise you put in.

When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.

The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less that that. My ability to concentrate and work toward hat goal has been my greatest asset.

You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.

Environmentali sm isn't a spectator sport. You actually have to stand up and demand that we be vigilant in protecting our air and water.