Sports Quotes
There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.
I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.
What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.
The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side
It's really been a better situation for me being with the Crush than it would if I were with the Broncos because this has given me a lot more broad range
The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.
An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.
Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.
You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?
It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.
Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.
I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link.
I do, have done and always will believe that I am very capable of performing and thriving at any level of the sport.
In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved
In my family, Mom can lead the sports activities, no problem! Except football - that, my husband does.
I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.
Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports.
We leaned on family, church, school, friends and sports. That's basically all we had. All those things really shaped my life and shaped me musically. It's why I write the way I do.
I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.
I stopped playing video games, I stopped playing other sports, and I just dove head first into wrestling and it's been my passion ever since I discovered it.
At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.
I'm still making my decision in the next few days on what path I'm going to take. What really makes me excited now is to continue to give back to the sport.
I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand youre going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.
When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four.
When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.
Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?
Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.
Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.
If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.
I wasn't feeling well in the first half. I felt down, man. I had three slices of pizza before the game and the food took me down.
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
He'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game, but also the way that he conducted himself on and off the court.
They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.