Sports Quotes - Page 41

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

Hunting is the noblest sport yet devised by the hand of man. There were mighty hunters in the Bible, and all the caves where the cave men lived are full of carvings of assorted game the head of the house drug home. If you hunt to eat, or hunt for sport for something fine, something that will make you proud, and make you remember every single detail of the day you found him and shot him, that is good too.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport.

Basketball is a game and their primary reason for participating in the sport is simply for the pleasure they experience while playing. Don't be afraid to lose. Have fun while you're busy playing hard and playing smart.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

I wasn't aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of travelling and visited various communities throughout Victoria. To see the way that my people looked at me and to know that I made a difference to them was an honour.

I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.

Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.

Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Supposed a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

Because there are no fours.