Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will become fitter and stronger; that by constant repetition of the same movements he will become more skilful and his muscles more relaxed...He must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it.
Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.
The one man team is a complete and total myth.
While the (America's) Cup is yachting's Holy Grail, it has also come to represent the ultimate test in 'the game of life.' Just as in life, success demands commitment and commitment demands a positive winning attitude. I told all the guys who came into our Cup campaign that if they were going to make the grade they needed three essential ingredients: attitude, attitude and attitude. I wanted commitment to the commitment. When they finally made the crew, some of them joked that they ought to be committed for their commitment to the commitment.
When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.
So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
No one did what I did last season and for this, I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the best World Player award?
There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time its been a compliment to me.
Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful - it doesn't matter who scores the goals as long as we're winning.
Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.
It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice.
Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.
I had to put it on the line, but it was my Tour to win and mine to lose.
You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.
An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.
As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
A great catch is like watching girls go by. The last one you see is always the prettiest.
I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.
When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
