Sports Quotes

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

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

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.

And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.

A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb in the first-person plural. We.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

The most important thing about winning is believing that you can win no matter who you are playing.

The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.

So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

Anytime you lose one fight in the UFC, you kind of have to feel like you are on the chopping block. There is so much competition in this sport.

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

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

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

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

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.

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

I think today's athletes generally are spoiled by what's happened to salaries, but I also think that golfers have maintained the best demeanor of any sport.

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.

I am very proud to align myself with Miken - a brand known as an innovator and leader in the development of high performance sports equipment.

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.

I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.

Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose.

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.

You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose

Sports taught me how to compete on the court, and taught me how to compete in life. Sports and life run parallel with one another.

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros.

I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.

My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.

The older you get, the more you learn.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.