Sports Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

I run to see who has the most guts.

We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.

Body does what mind prefers.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable.

Effort is a measure of a Man.

Before every shot, I go to the movies

I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport.

I fought, I fought harder . . . but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.

An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.

I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I've learned if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do.

I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

I'm like an expensive menu... you can look but you can't afford!

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

A tie is like kissing your sister.

Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.

When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.

Not only in the creative world but also in the sports world. The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

I can beat anyone, either male, female, animal, vegitable, or mineral.

Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

Running is not just a sport but a biological necessity.

The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don't think about it.

I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.

Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking

Writing is like a sport - you only get better if you practice

Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.

There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a quart, That dyspeptic old man of Orleans.

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

Sport is quite a simple thing. It is play, and in play, people of all ages find the chance to engage their most profound emotions-love, fear, excitement, disappointment, anger and joy.