Sports Quotes

You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them.

Too many coaches have too big a mouth and not big enough ears.

I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.

I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.

Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.

Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme . . . and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood.

In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser. To be a winner, we must devote time and hard work. To be a loser you do nothing, and that's exactly what you will get, nothing.

My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.

Tis love in love that makes the sport.

I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.

The purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to correct.

Why can't we have patience and expect good things to take time?

Always think of passing the ball before shooting it.

When everyone has good players, teaching will be a telling difference.

Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.

I hope others take as much pride in the sport as I do.

I played sports in high school and in college.

Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.

I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them.

I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.

I don't think people are reacting primarily to the danger of the sport. There are many other activities that are truly dangerous that we have no inclination to ban.

Bull riding is probably the most dangerous sport in the world in terms of head injuries.

When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics.

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.

We have a heard of gold, and that's what this medal is right here. It's a team that will never give up.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch.

Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

The best athletes in any sport take stretching very seriously before and after matches. Stretching is instrumental in any athlete's physical success.

There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax.

Our sport is really European, so you get to show off what you do to your friends and family and they can actually follow along.

The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.

When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport.

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

I'm still rough around the edges. I grew up with not a lot of money, and just played sports my whole life. So you develop the sports-mouth with all of your friends.

I’d just like to be good at sports. I’m extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's how are your parents doing.

I know that it's not all about me. It's about the sport. I never want to be bigger than racquetball. I just want to get up in the morning, have my coffee, turn on ESPN or TSN and see racquetball.

Hockey is still my favourite sport. I think that might be part of what makes me successful. I don't live or die by racquetball, so I can detach from it when needed. I'm all about all sports.

Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success and so were the Celtics. So after awhile it became part of people's sports lore...

I did every sport under the sun while growing up.

If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.