Sports Quotes

Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life-hit.

All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.

Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come

I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.

Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.

The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life

I am not a sports girl.

The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent

My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.

To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.

I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.

And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.

A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.

The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I’m going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don’t remember reading.

It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.

I lead a very physical life. I played a lot of sports and I spent a lot of time in the water surfing, swimming. I was a big swimmer.

There never was a champion who to himself was a good loser. There's a vast difference between a good sport and a good loser.

Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.

People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.

In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level

It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.

And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through.

Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel.

Sports is a way of entertainment, to people who are in different backgrounds, and for people who dedicated their lives to achieve the best in sports.

I have to accept risk as a racing driver.

I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.

I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.

I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one - and stay healthy.

When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.

One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.

Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.

I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman.

The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally.

I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed.