Sports Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music?

My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.

My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

Great teams work harder after a tough loss.

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.

Know your enemy - and learn about his favorite sport.

I've always been into endurance sport, which I think is more about your mind pushing your body, which is definitely why that Bear Grylls book sung to me.

Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.

The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.

I didn't know what was going through my mind.

I have no idea what I did. I heard people talk about dead leg, shake, change of pace and all that, but I did things without thinking about them.

Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.

It must be wonderful sport to contradict each other.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

My first act after being named head coach of the Bulls was to formulate a vision for the team. I had to take into account not only what I wanted to achieve, but how I was going to get there.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

Certain people are for me and certain people are pro me.

There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.

Stay calm and aggressive.

Think back over the history of any sport. Very often there has been one guy who stood out above the superstars - just as (Ray) Guy stands out in punting. It just happens.

I am thrilled and honored to have a seat at the table for meaningful conversation with so many accomplished women in the sports world.

To me, torture would be watching sports on television.