Sports Quotes - Page 42

Theatre sports is the best improv training period

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do

If you play to win as I do, the game never ends.

The integrity of the game is everything.

I've been fighting for more than 24 years and as I continue my ascendant career, I want to be true to myself. I want to try to be the best role model I can be for kids who might look into boxing as a sport and a professional career. I have and will always be a proud Puerto Rican. I have always been and always will be a proud gay man.

One shouldn't be afraid to lose; this is sport. One day you win; another day you lose. Of course, everyone wants to be the best. This is normal. This is what sport is about. This is why I love it.

I have no regrets because I know I did my best - all I could do.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.

You can sum up this sport in two words: You never know.

Anyone can train hard. Do you have the discipline to recover?

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

"She (Minnie Ruth Solomon) was unusual because even though I knew her family was as poor as ours, nothing she said or did seemed touched by that. Or by prejudice. Or by anything the world said or did. It was as if she had something inside her that somehow made all that not count. I fell in love with her some the first time we ever talked, and a little bit more every time after that until I thought I couldn't love her more than I did. And when I felt that way, I asked her to marry me . . . and she said she would."

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

Golf is the only-est sport. You're completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself. Golf brings out your assets and liabilities as a person. The longer you play, the more certain you are that a man's performance is the outward manifestation of who, in his heart, he really thinks he is.

There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.