Sports Quotes - Page 197

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

Winning is a great deodorant.

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.

The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.

It's really been a better situation for me being with the Crush than it would if I were with the Broncos because this has given me a lot more broad range

I don't have any pangs to where I want to be with the Broncos.

I'm happy with the Arena Football League right now. I'm happy in Denver.

The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.

I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills. And if we carry ourselves with grace and dignity and try our best - even when we fall on our faces, as will happen sometimes - then I think people will see that. And that will be the message of sport and the Olympics.

I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

It feels good to show some courage.

It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

When I grew up music was something I did on the side - I played sports, I went to school - and so music was always there, and I was really fortunate to have that, but so were so many other things.

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.

People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition.

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.