Sports Quotes
I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.
The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.
I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
Surfers are in tune with the weather because if there's a storm coming, there are waves coming. I love the rain.
Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.
Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.
Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues
We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.
Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy
Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right
Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.
I don't think you could have a 7 with a manual. But I can't see having a BMW sports sedan without a manual.
The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings.
Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.
I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.
I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.
I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.
With a vegan diet you always have energy, so much that sometimes I have trouble sleeping at night. You feel light. You don't feel bulky or heavy. This would benefit any athlete in any sport.
It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.
It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
