Sports Quotes - Page 25

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.

I had so many outs in my career. I could have said, I don’t need this. I have money; I have fame; I have victories; I have Grand Slams. But when your love for something is bigger than all those things, you continue to keep getting up in the morning when it’s freezing outside, when you know that it can be the most difficult day, when nothing is working, when you feel like the belief sometimes isn’t there from the outside world, and you seem so small. But you can achieve great things when you don’t listen to all those things.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

Nobody's taller than the last man standing

Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?

I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'.

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.

I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.

The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

I am in the fighting game, I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport, it is my life. I study it, I think about it, all the time. Nothing else matters.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.