Sports Quotes - Page 132

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

The world of extreme sports is also one of the big businesses. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.

Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.

You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system.

Most of the games don't let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I've been watching these girls.

Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.

Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter.

The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.

I think competing is more important than winning. There have been a lot of times when I've teed it up and I didn't win but I felt like I competed. I felt like this was not my day, but I never gave up, and I tried on every shot, and then next week I'd go get them.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.

Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.