Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set
You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.
If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!
If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.
I don't know anything about luck, but that the harder I train, the luckier I get.
I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the extent that a lot of things can be thrown at me, but it's about how much I am prepared to let them affect me
The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.
We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.
I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.
I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.
People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.
Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.
It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.
I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.
I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.
Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it
