Sports Quotes - Page 11

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured externally, by comparison to others, is often outside our control, and is perishable.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.

I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

Passion is kind of an important word for me, whether it’s playing sports or whether it’s just living or whatever you’re going to do. In my opinion you should be passionate about it or else, why do it?