Sports Quotes - Page 53

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress.

Never put an age limit on your dreams.

In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.

A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

You see, in sports you have so many things that aren't expected. There's so much uncertainty. So when players find themselves in a situation where management has a great deal of integrity and they can depend on my word or anybody else's word in the organization, they feel secure. And if the players feel secure, they don't want to leave here. And if they don't want to leave here, they're going to do everything they can on the court to stay here.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

World War II was a must win.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

I'll let the racket do the talking.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

The start is what stops most people.

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat. It is only some carnivorous animals that have to subsist on flesh. Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality . . . Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.