Sports Quotes

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.

There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn't in the cards. I didn't know what it was going to take to get here.

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.

[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me.

I feel this pang of regret whenever I watch sport; this sense that I will never play a big match again.

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.

Clearly, politics is a team sport. Trump is not so much of a team player.

I reread "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton, the father of all sports books. Aside from that, and books like "Out of Their League" by Dave Meggyesy, sports books generally pull their punches.

Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point.

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's fun to watch.

Last month Mitt Romney raised $76 million. He found it in an old sport-coat pocket.

Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning point in the sport.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

If you're good at it, you can win.

I've worked hard all my life.

I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital... He said, 'You have a gift... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.

Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.

When I need to relax, I love to go to the movies or watch a good TV series. I also practice a lot of sport, mostly tennis and swimming.

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.

Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

I also think that I had great mechanics.

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

Sportswriters are what make sports great and fun to watch.

From sports the greatest thing I've learned is discipline achieves goals.

If you stay consistent to the sport you will eventually get good, but you have to just want it more to be the best.

What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports?

Any sport you're going to do, you're going to lose more than you win. People don't realize how hard it is to be an athlete. It's difficult.

New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports. But Red Sox Nation is Red Sox Nation.

I think boxing is an incredible sport and I would like to see it really become regulated because I think it could bring back a lot of the past.

You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.

Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!

I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins.

Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.

Baseball will miss Steinbrenner. He did a lot of great things-and some not so great-but it's a sad day for baseball, no doubt about it. He was a winner, and he made the Yankees a winner.

I know people that can't win. I know people that are very talented at sports, and they never win.

Sport is about achievements. Art is to be touch and touch others in a personal level.

A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.

Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.