Sports Quotes - Page 101

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

I have had players who are good, and who know they are good; I have had players who are bad and know they are bad; I have had players who are good, but who don't know they are good; I have had players who are bad, but who don't know they are bad. It is this last group that has won more games for me than the first three groups combined.

A person can't brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex. Today I realize that once you have made a mistake, you must accept it, profit by it, and then totally dismiss it from your mind.

Sport doesn't build character, it shows it.

It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

Do you believe in miracles?

At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. I thought this was ridiculous - it was no one's business what car I drive - so in April, before a match with Almeria, I drove my Ferrari Enzo to work. It caused a scene.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

In all of nature structure determines function. Yet many people consider the marathoner and football linebacker all to be just one composite human being, an athlete. The body must be used to determine its role in sport. 'My aim is to develop every individual according to his best potential, protect him from false ambition, the desire to be someone he never can be and, more important, never should be.'

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.

If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.

You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.

I don't believe the old statement, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." If that were the case, then Cadillacs and Jaguars and Mercedes would never make a change. I've always looked for ways to make things better.

Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport.

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.