Sports Quotes - Page 148

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of Hellas, and may they continue to be so. For Anarchy is a thing without order; and the Rule of Many is factious, and thus anarchical, and thus disorderly. For both these tend to the same thing, namely disorder; and this to dissolution, for disorder is the first step to dissolution. But Monarchy is what we hold in honor.

Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready.

The interesting thing about basketball is that it is played recreationally all over the world in playgrounds where people shoot hoops. Perhaps it is because of this that the look of the game seems to have been able to cross over into streetwear more easily than that of some sports that are confined to more specialist arenas.

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

Nick Diaz is a champion so he's got the spirit that comes with it. So he's not going to give up mentally. You see a lot of guys give up mentally and that's why they get knocked out or submitted. They give up mentally before they lose.

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.

A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.

Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.

He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

Stay calm and aggressive.

I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.

I didn't know what was going through my mind.

For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum

My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.

Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

Don't make excuses, make good.

I never expected to sell my art. It wasn't like today where you come out of art school and they promise you a future. Now it's almost regulated in a way. When we came out of school, we just wanted to make art that'd blow your hair back and do it for sport. There was no commercial possibility that we saw.

Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.