Sports Quotes - Page 175

Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

I didn't care if we ever quit practicing. I loved it. The only other guy I ever knew who loved it as much was Jerry Duncan. He would beg to practice even when he was hurt. I've actually seen him cry because the trainer told him he couldn't scrimmage.

If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

I've told Billy [Bob Thornton] if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.

It's one thing to have an eye for the sport, and it's another to have a feel for the sport. He has both.

You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.

A modern school where football is taught.

You know, I love wearing heels. I wish I could wear them all the time, but, you know, my sport doesn't really permit it.

The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.

I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.

It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.

Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and further reach Than they dreamed of, a billow comes bursting, how they turn and scamper and screech!

True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.