Sports Quotes - Page 6

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Life is like any other contact sport; you’re gonna get your knocks. But it’s not the knocks that count, it’s how you handle them. If you handle them with anger, distrust, jealousy, hate, this in return is what you’re going to get. But if you handle these knocks with love and understanding, they don’t mean much. They just dissipate.

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.

When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be essential in addition to skill. They are that the person conducts his or her life with dignity, with integrity, courage, and perhaps most of all, with modesty. These virtues are totally compatible with pride, ambition, and competitiveness

The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

The concussion crisis has changed the face of sports as we know it and it has brought to surface the incredible importance of our brain health. The time is now for us to make our brain the number one priority so that education and awareness can take effect, and begin to change the way we approach the health of our athletes from youth to professionals.

A man fishes for two reasons: he’s either sport fishing or fishing to eat, which means he’s either going to try to catch the biggest fish he can, take a picture of it, admire it with his buddies and toss it back to sea, or he’s going to take that fish on home, scale it, fillet it, toss it in some cornmeal, fry it up, and put it on his plate. This, I think, is a great analogy for how men seek out women.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

When you're winning - you don't need any friends. When you're losing - you don't have any friends anyway.

A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

One chance is all you need.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Wrestlers Compete as Individuals, Yet the Sport Builds Comradery Like No Other.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.