Sports Quotes - Page 150

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.

Boxing is your father's sport.

It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'

It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.

I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.

I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

In what other sport do you get a 15-second break every hour?

I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.

People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.

If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.

Anytime you lose one fight in the UFC, you kind of have to feel like you are on the chopping block. There is so much competition in this sport.

I don't want any sports anymore, except fighting which is the only sport I really watch - whether it's boxing or UFC. I don't know why. I think maybe it's an aspiration I didn't get the chance to explore more, but I don't think my father expected anything from me, I think it's more what I put on myself.

This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.

I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.

I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.

In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and the rules permit it, it is perpetuated, not 'drained.' ... An emotion without social rules of containment and expression is like an egg without a shell: a gooey mess.

When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.

This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.