How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?
I love the game. It's fun to play, period. I love running around and getting sweaty. I love trying to lead my team. I love facing the challenge of another team that's better.
To become a champion, fight one more round.
In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.
I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my inability to work up a passion for the location of balls.
I can definitely take more off my world record - a lot more. I have no doubt about that. I'm by no means putting pressure on myself, it's just the belief I have in myself......I'm not going to limit myself by nominating times or anything like that. I never thought I'd do 14:34 and I did. I thought I'd maybe do 14:38 or 14:39 that day, and I went nearly five seconds quicker so I don't want to limit the possibilities
We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.
Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.
I like playing frisbee. It is the only sport where you can throw something at a person and it's okay.
It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.
Sports don't matter in the grand scheme of things. But in the moment, when things are just right, they're the most important thing in the world. That's what makes them so great.
That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.
Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.
Before I go out on the field every day, I tell myself, 'You are having fun, and you want to set a good example to those who are watching.
I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing.
What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.
The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level.
Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.
The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.
Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.
Life without sports is like life without underpants
In our lives we will encounter many challenges, and tomorrow we face one together. How we accept the challenge and attack the challenge head on is only about us-no one can touch that. If we win or lose this weekend, it will not make a difference in our lives. But why we play and how we play will make a difference in our lives forever.
In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.
When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!
