Sports Quotes - Page 186

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion

When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level

Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man.

It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing

The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.

As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

In life, and in sports, we all know that nothing lasts forever.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve.