Sports Quotes

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

I don't want to be a Major League coach.

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too "cool" or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

My first on the bucket list will be a night game at LSU. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there. Of all the things in college sports, that would be No. 1.

Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.

I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.

I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.

I don't have any ideas; my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

Every time a player goes out there, at least 20 people have some amount of influence on him. His mother has more influence than anyone. I know because I played, and I loved my mama.

Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.

It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.

And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

There's no gain, without pain.

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.

Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.

If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.

When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

We're not attempting to circumcise rules.

I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

Guys you have way too much invested in sport. Guys you are not the tenth man. You're a machine for turning beer into piss that's what you are!

The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

No sport is less organized than Calvinball.

I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network... They have more companies they can get money from.

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.

The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.