Sports Quotes

For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum

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.

Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players.

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.

When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can't hit it.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

I believe both the mind and the body need to be strong. We practise so hard that even if we hit a saturation point, we can't stop because that is the kind of dedication the sport requires.

I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

I love sport as long as its kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.

Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well

The Great Commission to go into all the world is not only geographical, but must include every field, profession, discipline, sport, etc.

I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it.

Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.

I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

Skating has so many styles. Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle.

Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.

I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

Boxing is your father's sport.

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!

I'm a big believer in the whole world of sports.

Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win.

I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928.... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.

When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.

Work hard to make things easier.

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

Never mishandle hope or self-confidence - those are elements of life, not just a game.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream.

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.