Sports Quotes - Page 57

Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.

The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to have that inner drive otherwise it's not going to work out.

Age doesn't make a difference either. Whether you're 20 or 70, you can still play together. There are so many different things you can do with golf that you can't do in other sports.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which makes a fetish of sport and professes eroticism as a way of life. A perverted and insane pictorial art, lewd exhibitionistic dancing and jungle music form the spiritual norm of this sector of America's youth.

I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from

Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team... winning does not happen in straight lines.

In sport you always think the strongest guy should be going for it and getting the best results. The thing is, cycling also has a very important team aspect, which I don't think that a lot of people fully grasp.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

Bill Walton, UH Volleyball coach, after his player kept looking at him on the bench every time the ball hit the floor...Next time you look at me I'll put you on the bench where you can see me better. My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they are popular. You make them because they are right.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

More than just a big adrenalin rush, it's more like, 'let's explore what's possible in our sport'.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up.

Just do what you do best.

In the name of all competitors I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.

When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?

Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Hockey is an amazing sport and it has definitely had a positive impact on my life. But my dad always said school comes first, and if I didn't do well in school I didn't get to play hockey.

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

I think it's just really made me appreciate life more. I've known people die before that and I was really rattled by it but when it hit so close to home ... it was just so different. I just thought about what I really wanted to do. I want to be a pro surfer and that's what I'm going to do.