Sports Quotes - Page 44

The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

I like comedy as a group sport.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing "sport" and kills for the pleasure of killing; not for food, not for self-defense, but just to satisfy some primitive instinct, once necessary and now perverted.

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say "We'll just have to see".

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

Golfers are the greatest worriers in the world of sport.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a short time; and for that they demand a great deal. The struggle is not with the enemy, or a competitor like in sports, but with yourself, with the feelings of weakness and inadequacy. That struggle appeals to me. It is why I became a mountaineer.