Sports Quotes - Page 58

There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.

When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.

Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.

The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport.

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.

His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.

The strongest thing I put into my body is steak and eggs. I just eat. I'm not a supplement guy. Steroids are not even a thought.

When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be overlooked. I don't train for my looks.

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

We should make the most of life, enjoy it because that's the way it is!

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

The word coach comes from the old English word coach, which was a vehicle, a carriage that took royalty or very important people from where they were to where they wanted to go. That's really what a coach is. He or she tries to create a vehicle that will help you get where you're going, not where the coach wants you to go.

There many guys out there who are actually fishing for a woman whom they are planning on keeping. But there are guys out there who are just sports fishing - catching them and then throwing them back into the ocean.

I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.

Sports are a metaphor for life.