Sports Quotes - Page 40

I'm not afraid of anyone, but sometimes I'm afraid of myself. The mental part is very important.

Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.

It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

The key is that I control my life; my life doesn't control me.

To see the glory in sport, where somebody comes from behind and does something, sinks a shot in the last second or throws a touchdown pass or hits a home run, there is a beauty in that, and at the end of the day, that's why we love sports more than anything else.

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.

Blame is the cowards way out.

Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team.

I think that every single person should play sports.

There simply is nothing else like it. And, as a test of physical and mental endurance it has no equal. Other sports may be as intense, as pressurized, as hard for short periods: But the Tour does on day after day after day. It's the only race in the world where you have to get a haircut halfway through.

I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.

Every passion has its destiny.

Players win games, teams win championships.

A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

Sweet are the uses of adversity

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.

But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box.

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.