Sports Quotes

The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer

I don't celebrate because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?

With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands.

The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.

When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.

I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.

A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion

The guys that improve every year are those that are always adding something to their game.

Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

I'm the strongest bodybuilding who ever lived, I think.

The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great.

I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.

It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong.

Skiing is the best way in the world to waste time.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.

No one ever won a game by resigning.

Sport is a preserver of health.

Always enter like a kitten and leave like a lion. But NEVER enter like a lion and leave like a kitten. Always be humble.

During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head...you know it was worthwhile.

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

Attitude determines how well you do it.

A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course.

I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.