Sports Quotes - Page 63

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.

Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.

The game isn't over till the clock says zero.

I'm absolutely, 100 percent, not guilty.

In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.

A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster and rent tonight's game." Every night is different in sports. Every day there are different heroes and villains and conversations after the game.

I can be surfing the exact same wave and then sometimes something will just set off, even if I'm riding the same board the whole time. Something will just set off and it just feels like you can push just that extra bit harder.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

I play chess about four hours a day in training camp. You have to decide what move to use, or what combination of moves. I think less when I box because the reaction time is a lot quicker, but some people call me the chess boxer because they say I think too much in the ring. I take my time and they don't see the action they want. Some boxers just go in there and just throw punches and hope to win.

If you lose your integrity, you've lost everything.

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

A lot of times the expectations of you are so high that no matter what you do you are never going to be able to live up to those expectations. So you better go out and do the best you can and enjoy it.

The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.

In my sport, the quick are too often listed among the dead

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who dominate some game year after year. In other words there are Bobby Jones and Helen Wills.

The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.