Sports Quotes - Page 22

The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

I'm the strongest bodybuilding who ever lived, I think.

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion

I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it.

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

The guys that improve every year are those that are always adding something to their game.

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

No one ever won a game by resigning.

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.