Sports Quotes - Page 136

It's important to go against the grain. My favorite celebrity, across arts and sports and everything, is Muhammad Ali. And he was famous for speaking inflammatory things that were polarizing but also were important to building who he was as a man and his legacy. And in the end, he was right about most of the s... he was talkin' about.

Everyone has to remember, I've always said that soccer is my number-one sport.

It will be difficult to return to racing this weekend after Marco's terrible accident in Sepang but I think it is the best thing we can do to honour him,” says World Champ Casey Stoner. We know we all play a risky game and, even if compared to the past the safety of our sport is much better, unfortunately these kind of events still occur. We will go out there this weekend and try to put on a good show for all the fans and especially in memory of Marco.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.

I was scared to death, but I made fear score points for me. Fear is right behind me, fear is six inches off my back, that's where fear is. I can feel its presence. But it's not going to catch me... I'm going to take fear and use it to my advantage.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

Fear is part of the process. If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble.

If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room.

That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.

One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports can make this claim. In figure skating, for instance, the novice practices only simple moves. After years of training, the skater then proceeds to the jumps and spins that make up an elite skater's program. But the novice rower, from day one, strives to duplicate a motion that he'll still be doing on the day of the Olympic finals.

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids

The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle.

My kids used to do things to aggravate me, too. I'd take them to a game, and they'd want to come home with a different player.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

I wanted to use sports for social change.

I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.