Sports Quotes

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back.

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery

I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands.

Have you seen a blowfish driving a sports car?

It doesn't take talent to hustle.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

I had a really good feeling about that match. You know, they are good friends, and Chris had to feel really relaxed because of being out there with Tiger.

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

When you are in the public eye you cannot afford to show doubts. I do my crying alone.

The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

As a child, I could beat most kids in sprints, but overall, wrestling was the most natural sport for me. In fact, I was a pretty good high school wrestler. I was unusually quick and strong.

In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself.

Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

Larry Bird just throws the ball in the air and God moves the basket underneath it.

There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport

Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions

The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.

I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

To answer that question honestly, I'd have to lie to you.

Don't mistake activity for achievement - practice the right way. - John Wooden I only play well when I'm prepared. If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

Athletes today get into a single-minded, one sport routine. I can't stand it.

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.

I know it sounds selfish, wanting to do something no one else has done. But that's what you're out here for - to separate yourself from everyone else.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle.

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.

My life has been centered around sports. It is where I have met my closest friends and shaped the values that have made me a successful athlete, student and role model for young people.

Although it is disappointing that softball was not reinstated into the Olympics, we are going to continue to keep growing the sport.

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.

Losing is the great American sin.

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.

I watch sports and cable news. I’m a political junkie, so that’s my interest.

The marketing of players has created untold wealth for many sports stars. You can't blame them or the company that covets the relationship with them, but that doesn't mean the player is good.

I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.

When I grew up music was something I did on the side - I played sports, I went to school - and so music was always there, and I was really fortunate to have that, but so were so many other things.