Sports Quotes - Page 62

Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.

The Most Important Thing I Know About the Spirit of Sport... It instills in us the ability to recognize and appreciate the talents of others as well as the gifts we have been given and the ability to work with others as a team. It also allows us to face the challenge of competition, learn from our successes and failures, altogether making us true champions in life.

Knowledge comes from your instructors; wisdom comes from within.

When I win awards, I think of my father.

Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the authors, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.

I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.

If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.

With football, you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two-game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.