Sports Quotes

You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.

Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.

Hillary Clinton has a $350 billion plan that she says will make college more affordable. Which has to be better than my parents' plan to make college affordable: 'Be good at sports.'

The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know

Sports have a way of touching people.

Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

They say football is America's greatest game, but it's not. The greatest game in America is called opportunity. Football is merely a great expression of it.

Being wrong on facts, that's something you have a real responsibility to correct. But being wrong in the fun sports way is part of the interplay.

Look what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point, I may feel the need to run for office again.

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all.

I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

There have been openings, but I have not interviewed for any jobs, nor do I want to right now.

I would have loved to have played for Joe Gibbs. Look at his record of winning three Super Bowls.

I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.

We get done with the game, and it's an absolute downpour 30 minutes later. That's when I thought God was telling me that's enough-time for you to go do something else

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.

Sports is a bloodless rehearsal of confrontation, and everyone shakes hands or high fives or fist bumps at the end to show that everything is okay.

I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.

The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win.

Study hard, practice hard, play ferociously.

A coach must sometimes see players with his heart, and hear them with his eyes.

There are two basic situations in volleyball - either you got the ball or you don't.

It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.

There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.

Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.

Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires.

There is nothing less important in life than the score after one game of a two out of three game match.

The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

Don't ask yourself what you did wrong; ask yourself what you did right.

Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.

Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.

Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time.

Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.

The kind of player who has turned his game around, he used to be lousy and lazy and now he is lazy and lousy.

The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching.

You must allow your players to become the athletes they can be. Don't make them into anything just to become the kind of winners fans, friends and others think they must be.

False teammates are like our shadows. They keep close to us when we are all walking in the sunshine, but they are gone the instant we just go into the shade, let alone the darkness.

Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel.

Trying simply provides an excuse for not doing.

Alter strategies and tactics, but never your principles.

Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.