Sports Quotes - Page 55

The Jeep is the only true American sports car.

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.

Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

I tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a game, so they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing, and if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.

You know, I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport, you know for me it's just a way of life

Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.

Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

Bodybuilding is not only a sport but first an ART.

I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.

A winner never whines.

When placed in command, take charge.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.