Sports Quotes - Page 26

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.

We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.

For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is.

In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.

I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I'm still only 35 years old... I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.

I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.

Boxing is a science. You don't just walk into a gym and start punching. Fighters are born with differences in physical ability, but you also see a big difference in their skills. That's the trainers influence at work.

BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know.

Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things.