Sports Quotes - Page 124

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.

I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.

For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.

It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.

I've achieved everything I ever wanted. I've done three Olympics, world championships, I've been around the world and made good friends. But I still have the inner drive to do more, to be not just good, but to be great.

A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be.

Hip-hop in a lot of ways is like sports; when you go to a sports game, you see people from all ages, all ethnicities, all social classes, they're all there enjoying the game. Hip-hop has been one of the only forms of music that has provided that kind of atmosphere.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things, along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.

Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.

I take it so seriously as far as meditation, notes, visualization, preparation, everything. I take it a lot more serious than a lot of people that play this sport. I'm obsessed with the game that I play.

I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.

Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.

The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.

Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream.

If there is a mutual respect between players and coaches, that keeps the team honest and makes for a very healthy environment which in turn promotes other important qualities such as work ethic, integrity and a positive atmosphere for competing and winning.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.