Sports Quotes - Page 214

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.

Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

There's no gain, without pain.

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.

Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.

Every time a player goes out there, at least 20 people have some amount of influence on him. His mother has more influence than anyone. I know because I played, and I loved my mama.

It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

I don't have any ideas; my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments.

I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.

I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.

Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.

First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.

My first on the bucket list will be a night game at LSU. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there. Of all the things in college sports, that would be No. 1.

I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys because we'll always be connected in people's minds.