Sports Quotes

I didn't aspire to be a good sport; "champion" was good enough for me.

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

Most of the games don't let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I've been watching these girls.

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

Fitness plays such an important role in my life, and an integral part of my golf structure, that I think I might be quite good at teaching others the benefits of sport and fitness.

My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet.

If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting.

The difference between a winner and a loser is, many times, a matter of inches. If you think you can do it, most of the time you'll do it.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.

That's one of the magical things about the Olympics, Team GB will have someone challenging in a sport that we've never watched and all of a sudden it'll be the biggest thing ever.

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

If you approach Billy Martin right, he's Okay. I avoid him altogether.

Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.

I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.

There's two kinds of pain in sports: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret.

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him.

My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

Psychologically speaking, it's very important to be in good shape. I work in a sport that requires you to react quickly and be in excellent shape. Besides, things don't get easier as you get older.

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.

I'm sick of the media making female sports athletes into supermodels, when they're clearly sixes at best.

Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport.

You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.

Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.

I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

All sports are games of inches.

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.

I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I'd get bored.

I did my first triathlon when I was 11-years-old and it was just another new sport to try. I got better at it and decided to take it a bit more seriously.