Sports Quotes - Page 178

It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.

Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.

Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.

When youre on top, youre on top.

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word I when you're in a group makes things complicated.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

I have to move on now as there is no point to dwell on the past. I have a few days to refocus and get ready for the 200 meters on Friday. After this I have the 4×100-meter and a few other races before the end of the season.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.

I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

That wasn't good, that wasn't sportsmanship. I was amazed he took that shot.

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.

I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

When I was younger I only read sports books. I loved the biographies that told how athletes developed. When I got into coaching, I did start to read more instructional books, but I was always more interested in the people behind the ideas.

I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.

When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself.

Not interested. I didn't try very hard. I went to boarding school on a sports' scholarship after I bowled a cricket ball into my old headmaster's leg. He said, 'Christ, that was accurate,' and got it for me. But I walked out at 16.

Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.