Sports Quotes

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

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

I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.

I don't know, but I stepped on a scale that gives fortunes and the card read Come back in 15 minutes alone.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

Everyone has to remember, I've always said that soccer is my number-one sport.

I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

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

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

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

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

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

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

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.'

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You need to enjoy yourself and just get into the routine of keeping fit and enjoying being active. That's always easier once you've made friends in the sport.

All sports are games of inches.

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.

First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Gimme: An agreement between two losers who can't putt.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

Success is doing what it takes in spite of one's fear.

When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.

Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

Hustle makes up for many a mistake.

An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.