Sports Quotes - Page 31

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

Every day I push myself to redefine the limits of our sport

Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.

Life is not a spectator sport.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.

When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now its called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.

I do think we can be a little less PC when it comes to sports, though. Just once I want to hear an announcer go 'God, black people are fast. Holy cow! All of them. They're fast. Back to you Bob.'

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.