Sports Quotes - Page 18

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.

Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.

When I put some Tabasco on things, and there's really nothing in Tabasco, it's not bad for you in any way, so that's kind of become my substitute. Now you got to get used to a hot mouth, but that's okay.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.

I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don't think of fighting or hate, just love it, enjoy their sport, and that's it.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

He can run, but he can't hide.

Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?

I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me

How can you think and hit at the same time?