Sports Quotes - Page 3

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports.

Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.

Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.

If we dare to win, we should also dare to lose

During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days.

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.

If you take time to realize what your dream is and what you really want in life, no matter what it is, whether it's sports or in other fields, you have to realize that there is always work to do, and you want to be the hardest working person in whatever you do, and you put yourself in a position to be successful. And you have to have a passion about what you do.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Success is a project that's always under construction.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.