Sports Quotes
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Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. (Quote by - Bill Russell)
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. (Quote by - William Barclay)
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. (Quote by - John Updike)
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. (Quote by - Tom Landry)
There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class. (Quote by - David Coleman)
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. (Quote by - Rogers Hornsby)
If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again (Quote by - Terry Venables)
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)
I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast. (Quote by - Evelyn Ashford)
With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them. (Quote by - Art Hill)
One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football? (when asked if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season resulted from poor physical conditioning) (Quote by - Darrell Royal)
Twas Game Six of the Series when out of the sky, Flew Sergio's parachute, a Met banner held high. His goal was to spur our home team to success, Burst Beantown's balloon claiming Sox were the best. (Quote by - Phyllis Orlikoff Flug)
It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis. (Quote by - Reggie Crist)
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. (Quote by - Mrs. Jamieson)
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid. (Quote by - Thomas J. Watson)
It's almost like we have ESPN. (on how well he and James Worthy work together) (Quote by - Magic Johnson)
These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it. (Quote by - Charles Barkley)
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. (Quote by - Mike Singletary)
They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. (Quote by - Gardner Dickinson)
The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition. (Quote by - William Van Horne)
Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject. (recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one D) (Quote by - Shelby Metcalf)
They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets. (Quote by - Lavell Edwards)
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. (Quote by - William A. Ward)
Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious. (Quote by - Charles Shackleford)
They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now. (Quote by - Captain James)
I couldn't see the ball come off the club for the first 27 holes. It came off the club that fast. (Quote by - Buddy Marucci)
I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first. (Quote by - George Rogers)
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. (Quote by - Peggy Fleming)
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. (Quote by - Dean Martin)
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. (Quote by - Joe Garagiola)
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?. (Quote by - Barbara J. Alexander)
Morcelli has four fastest 1500-metre times ever. And all those times are at 1500 metres. (Quote by - David Coleman)
We train by a parkway, which runs beside a river. If we had a lonely end, he either would be hit by a car or drown. (on why he doesn't use a lonely end) (Quote by - Jim Camp)
I told him, 'Son, what is it with you: Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.' (on a former player) (Quote by - Frank Layden)
I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up. (Quote by - Steve Cauthen)
He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity. (Quote by - Nick Faldo)
If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have. (Quote by - Hale Irwin)
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
It is alright to be disappointed, but a winner can never allow himself to be discouraged. (Quote by - D.a. Chapple)
My sister's expecting a baby and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt. (Quote by - Chuck Nevitt)
The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball (Quote by - John Francombe)
I'm a golfer -- not an athlete. (Quote by - Lee Westwood)
He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.' (on his 11-year-old son's reaction after he took the job with the Boilermakers) (Quote by - Jim Colletto)
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. (Quote by - Barry Switzer)
Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago (Quote by - David Coleman)
It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it. (Quote by - Andre Agassi)
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. (Quote by - Grantland Rice)
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes. (Quote by - Al Mcguire)
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. (Quote by - Arnold Palmer)
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. (Quote by - William James)
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top. (Quote by - Pete Dye)
World records are only borrowed. (Quote by - Sebastian Coe)
You mean in the state? (when asked if he felt his team should be ranked in the Top Twenty this season) (Quote by - Abe Lemons)
The integrity of the game is everything. (Quote by - Peter Ueberroth)
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. (Quote by - Sam Snead)
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. (Quote by - Charles Barkley)
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage. (Quote by - Arie De Geus)
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. (Quote by - Queen Elizabeth)
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life. (Quote by - Chris Evert Lloyd)
Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes. (Quote by - Robert M. Hutchins)
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on. (Quote by - Dorothy Hamill)
You guys line up alphabetically by height. (a Florida State football coach) (Quote by - Bill Peterson)
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win channel your energy. Focus. . (Quote by - Carl Lewis)
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. (Quote by - Paul Coffey)
Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand. (Quote by - Wes Westrum)
Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture. (Quote by - Juan Antonio Samaranch)
It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.) (Quote by - Venus Williams)
World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition. Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today. (Quote by - Eric Allison)
I'll let the racket do the talking. (Quote by - John Mcenroe)
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. (Quote by - Tiger Woods)
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. (Quote by - Jim Murray)
They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free. (explaining his contractual obligations) (Quote by - Greg Buttle)
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself. (Quote by - Jim Abbott)
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time. (Quote by - Greg Lemond)
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming. (Quote by - Charles Barkley)
That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much. (Quote by - Joaquin Andujar)
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. (Quote by - Mario Andretti)
I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. (Quote by - John Kruk)
Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of. (Quote by - David Coleman)
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. (Quote by - A. Bartlett Giamatti)
There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, 'You never know.' (Quote by - Joaquin Andujar)
I lost it in the sun! (after fumbling a grounder.) (Quote by - Billy Loes)
As I remember it, the bases were loaded. (asked his reaction to hitting a grand slam) (Quote by - Garry Maddox)
Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean. (on sportswriters) (Quote by - Pedro Guerrero)
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings. (Quote by - Harold Brodkey)
He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it. (Quote by - Gary Mccord)
To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition. (Quote by - Marguerite Beecher)
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. (Quote by - Pete Incaviglia)
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. (Quote by - Muhammad Ali)
We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. (Quote by - Jason Kidd)
I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it. (Quote by - Ray Malavasi)
I told [GM] Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big name pitcher. He said, 'Dave Wehrmeister's got 11 letters. Is that a big enough name for you ?' (White Sox owner) (Quote by - Eddie Eichorn)
The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical (Quote by - Murray Walker)
I can tell you it's a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right through. (Quote by - Sky)
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. (Quote by - Bern Williams)
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books) (Quote by - Steve Spurrier)
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. (Quote by - Joe Adcock)
Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day. (Quote by - Peter Ueberroth)
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose. (Quote by - Gordie Howe)
My potential speaks for itself. (who finished the year ranked 111 in 1998.) (Quote by - Liliah Osterloh)
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. (Quote by - Hugo L. Black)
I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral. (on the career dedication of her husband, the Miami Dolphins' coach) (Quote by - Dorothy Shula)
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. (Quote by - Hunter S. Thompson)
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. (Quote by - Bill Veeck)
He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings. (on his coach, John Jenkins, 1991) (Quote by - Torrin Polk)
It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991) (Quote by - Alan Kulwicki)
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok. (Quote by - Shaquille O'neal)
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball. (Quote by - Billie Jean King)
Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious (Quote by - Alan Minter)
I'm a 4-wheel-drive pickup type of guy. So is my wife. (Quote by - Mike Greenwell)
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. (Quote by - Roland Barthes)
Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'? (when asked about his rapport with wide receiver Jerry Rice) (Quote by - Jeff Kemp)
Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you. (Quote by - Gladiator's Salute)
I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment…. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is. (Quote by - Lynn Jennings)
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. (Quote by - Arthur Hugh Clough)
Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink. (Quote by - Marv Harshman)
Thatll be helpful because we have guys on this club that have trouble reading the nameplate on their locker to find their clothes after a game (Quote by - Stu Grimson)
Me and George and Billy are two of a kind. (on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin) (Quote by - Mickey Rivers)
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do. (Quote by - Norman Augustine)
He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is. (on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota, 1996.) (Quote by - Lou Duva)
Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts. (Quote by - Earl Campbell)
Tom. (New coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets, when asked how he pronounced his name, 1966) (Quote by - Tom Nissalke)
Raise the urinals. (on how management could keep the Braves on their toes) (Quote by - Darrel Chaney)
They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids. (Quote by - Tito Fuentes)
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. (Quote by - Ara Parasheghian)
If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. (Quote by - Horace G. Hutchinson)
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. (Quote by - Michael Jordan)
Everybody knows that I have been pumping Martin Leslie for a couple of seasons now. (Quote by - Sky)
He wants Texas back. (when asked what terms Mexican-born pitching sensation Fernando Valenzuela might settle for in his upcoming contract negotiations) (Quote by - Tommy Lasorda)
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one. (Quote by - Bill Bradley)
Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of. (Quote by - Johnny Bench)
I'll always be Number 1 to myself. (Quote by - Moses Malone)
I'm going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time. (after the team's cocaptain, offensive guard Robert Pratt, pulled a hamstring running onto the field for the coin toss against St. Louis) (Quote by - Mike Mccormack)
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. (Quote by - George Carlin)
Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew. (Quote by - Harry Carpenter)
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. (Quote by - Paul Rodriguez)
Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. (Quote by - Nomar Garciaparra)
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
Competitions are for horse, not artist. (Quote by - Bela Bartok)
Spencer's running across field calling out, 'come inside me, come inside me.' (Quote by - Sky)
Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us. (Quote by - Gil Atkinson)
Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed. (Quote by - Tug Mcgraw)
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Are you any relation to your brother Marv? (spoken to announcer Steve Albert) (Quote by - Leon Wood)
Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end. (Quote by - Chuck Hogan)
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. (Quote by - Vance Law)
I've won at every level, except college and pro. (Quote by - Shaquille O'neal)
I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes. (Quote by - College Senior)
Boxing has become America's tragic theater. (Quote by - Joyce Carol Oates)
Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. (Quote by - Lou Brock)
Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out? (Quote by - Joe Kapp)
This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother. (Quote by - Ted Walsh)
I'm going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time. (after the team's co-captain, offensive guard Robert Pratt, pulled a hamstring running onto the field for the coin toss against St. Louis) (Quote by - Mike Mccormack)
Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind. (Quote by - Willard Beecher)
He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is. (on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota) (Quote by - Lou Duva)
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up. (Quote by - Tommy Bolt)
Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence. (Quote by - Nick Price)
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. (Quote by - Gerald R. Ford)
Nobody roots for Goliath. (Quote by - Wilt Chamberlain)
I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports. (Quote by - Martina Hingis)
There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part. (Quote by - Charles Spalding)
Fans don't boo nobodies. (Quote by - Reggie Jackson)
Training is all-encompassing and should be related to everything a unit does, or can have happen to it. (Quote by - Arthur Collins)
You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games. (Quote by - Harry Caray)
I am the most loyal player money can buy. (Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics and California Angels) (Quote by - Don Sutton)
I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win. (Quote by - Tiger Woods)
He's tough [Tiger Woods]. I wish I was that tough when I was his age. (Quote by - John Daly)
Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear. (Quote by - John Madden)
Wrestling is ballet with violence. (Quote by - Jesse Ventura)
I really lack the words to compliment myself today. (Quote by - Alberto Tomba)
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. (Quote by - Roger Kahn)
I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating. (Quote by - Jim Finks)
Victory goes to the player who makes the next to last mistake. (Quote by - Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower)
Ninety percent of the game is half mental. (Quote by - Jim Wohford)
I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid. (Quote by - Terry Bradshaw)
The game was closer than the score indicated. (after a 1-0 game) (Quote by - Dizzy Dean)
It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long. (after his team had defeated Whitman 70-30) (Quote by - Hugh Campbell)
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? (Quote by - Jim Bouton)
Most skiers are really motorcyclists in cute clothes. (Quote by - Bob Wilkerson)
I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father (Quote by - Greg Norman)
You get out in front -- you stay out in front. (Quote by - A. J. Foyt)
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result. (Quote by - Michael Jordan)
He's as good at his age as Jack (Nicklaus) was, and look at what Jack has done in the gime of golf. That's the highest praise I can give anyone, to compare him to Jack Nicklaus. (Quote by - Michael Bonallack)
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. (Quote by - Lou Holtz)
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top. (Quote by - O.j. Simpson)
We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity. (after a game his team lost to the New York Nets) (Quote by - Mike Newlin)
I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. (Quote by - Ben Hogan)
I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance. (Quote by - Barry Bonds)
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. (Quote by - Bill Peterson)
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. (Quote by - Roger Simon)
You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five. (Quote by - Beano Cook)
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. (Quote by - Joe Theismann)
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. (Quote by - Bob Hope)
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. (Quote by - James B. Connant)
The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it. (Quote by - Reggie Jackson)
The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result. (Quote by - Sadaharu Oh)
I went through baseball as a player to be named later. . (Quote by - Joe Garagiola)
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. (Quote by - Roger Kahn)
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. (Quote by - Ted Williams)
The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake. (Quote by - Timothy Gallwey)
Soccer players can do it for 90 minutes in all positions! (Quote by - Daniel R. Evans)
I'll be back. (five days after being pummeled in his fight with Mike Tyson.) (Quote by - Peter Mcneeley)
Darryl Gibson has been quite magnificent coming inside Andrew Mehrtens, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of the same today. (Quote by - Sky)
Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw. (Quote by - Ron Atkinson)
You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you. (Quote by - Joe Falcon)
Use it or lose it. (Quote by - Jimmy Connors)
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. (Quote by - Haywood Hale Broun)
I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot. (on his decision not to vote) (Quote by - Lincoln Kennedy)
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. (Quote by - Wayne Gretzky)
A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing. (Quote by - Warren Spahn)
The character of a person is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. (Quote by - Hank Aaron)
My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt. (explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice, 1982) (Quote by - Chuck Nevitt)
Racing is a matter of spirit not strength. (Quote by - Janet Guthrie)
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. (Quote by - Jack Lemmon)
The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me. (Quote by - Leroy Burrell)
Don't park in the spaces marked, Reserved for Umpires. . (Quote by - John Mcsherry)
There's nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside (Quote by - Sky)
We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play. (Quote by - Pat Williams)
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. (Quote by - Joe E. Lewis)
You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. (Quote by - Pete Rose)
I see no reason why Tiger Woods won't become a great player. Man, can he smoke some shots. A little refinement on Tiger's short game and there'll be nothing. He's already pretty darn imposing. (Quote by - Corey Pavin)
Those who complain how the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it. (Quote by - Unknown)
There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid. (Quote by - Jack Nicklaus)
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. (Quote by - Michael Jordan)
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you. (Quote by - Yogi Berra)
I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. (Quote by - Tom Clark)
The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register. (Quote by - Bob Verdi)
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work. (Quote by - Lee Trevino)
I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to. (on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece) (Quote by - Shaquille O'neal)
The only one who can beat me is me. (Quote by - Michael Johnson)
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. (Quote by - Joseph Chilton Pearce)
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them. (Quote by - Hank Aaron)
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. (Quote by - Bobby Knight)
The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play. (Quote by - Reggie Jackson)
The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods. (Quote by - Gary Player)
I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play. (Quote by - Boris Becker)
I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf) (Quote by - Tug Mcgraw)
Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. (Quote by - Woodie Held)
Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity. (Quote by - Daniel Burrus)
There are only two kinds of coaches -- those who have been fired, and those who will be fired. (Quote by - Ken Loeffler)
One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football? (asking if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season resulted from poor physical conditioning) (Quote by - Darrell Royal)
Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. (Quote by - Edward Hoagland)
What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third-best horse and win. (Quote by - Vicky Aragon)
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. (Quote by - Ronnie Corbett)
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. (Quote by - Fred A. Allen)
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. (Quote by - Robert Lynd)
In my many years of coaching, he is the most focused in terms of the important aspects of his life and his goals. He is a giver, not a getter, and a product of two amazing parents. (Quote by - Wally Goodwin)
