Sports Quotes - Page 33

I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I love it because the results are immediate and the strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life that is difficult to prove.

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of the greater significance of football and sports emphasis in general in this country, and that is, I thank God I was warring on the gridirons of the Midwest and not on the battlefields of Europe. I can speak confidently and positively that the players of this country would much more, much rather, struggle and fight to win the Heisman award than the Croix de guerre.

I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.

If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant being a cheerleader, not being an athlete. The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.

He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played.

Running reminded me exactly who I am and what I am made of.

Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

The most interesting guy I've ever played with was King Hassan of Morocco. I went over there on a trip in the early 1970s, and the King and I played five holes. I've never been that nervous in my life.

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

In order to be successful at anything you choose to do, you must make a 100 percent commitment to what it is you are trying to do. If you put 50 percent of your ability into it, that is all that you will get out of it. You must discipline your body and your mind to work towards the goals you have set. Once you have made this decision, then the work begins.

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.

You know what they say about big hitters...the woods are full of them.

A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.

You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.