Sports Quotes

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

It will always be the ball and me.

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.

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.

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.

I can only play the sport for so long, I have mathematics for the rest of my life.

Sport doesn't build character, it shows it.

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

Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.

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

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.

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

My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

Life is a team sport; it's not about you.

Don't tell me you can pitch...pitch. Don't tell me you can sell...sell.

Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

Well, David Eckstein, like most of us, has 20 digits. Ten fingers. Ten toes.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera.

A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.

I admired those girls who did Playboy, Sports Illustrated, and Victoria's Secret. I love looking at them too, but I never went in that direction. I just stayed in fashion.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

I'm not looking for starters, I'm looking for finishers.

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

A huge part of my passion for the sport comes from being Canadian and growing up watching Hockey Night in Canada on CBC with my parents and siblings.

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

I've never seen anyone go on the DL with pulled fat.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

I skated like it's a sport, went for everthing and just gave it my best shot. It turned out freat. I had nothing to lose. You might be the best in your heart, but not in other people's sight.

My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.