Sports Quotes

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

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

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

It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy

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

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

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.

I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.

The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else.

I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.

I always try to attack. While I'm on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.

Nobody's taller than the last man standing

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw of a sport as it gets.

Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.

It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.

I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.

In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.

The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.

We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is.

Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.

This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.