Sports Quotes

I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it.

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting.

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.

The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.

No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.

Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.

So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.

Live as if you were living already for the second time.

I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

I don't really go mountain biking per se, like a proper sport.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Individuals score points, but teams win games.

What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What matters is how well you play when you're playing badly.

Rest if you must, but never quit.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.

The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.

When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everythings OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.

Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers.

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.

The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

It's not how hard you pushed along the way. It's having something in you to finish.

Leadership is one of sports intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, Follow me.

If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.

It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?

The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams... This is success!

The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.

I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.