Sports Quotes - Page 137

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. 30 for 30 had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.

I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.

Some guys are just very, very interested in their sport and their predecessors. I know I was a guy like that when I was a young coach. I wanted to know about George Halas, I wanted to know about Jim Lee Howell, guys you don't even know. I wanted to know what they were like. So I read whatever I could get my hands on.

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn't much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did.

We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

I feel that Im not losing the game for our team. Im trying to give us the best opportunity to win the football game. I did everything I could to lose the Jets game but we won. And the Patriots game, I didnt play well. I think that this year, I just come out and play smart football. I got some good advice the other day (from CBS Sports Dan Dierdorf): Every drive that ends in a kick is a good drive.

I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.

All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.

Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I'd get bored.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field, no bat, no ball, no skis, no skates. All other athletes have to use equipment, like a football. But I don't use anything in competition except myself. It's just me up there. Me alone. No coach. No nothing.

Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.