Sports Quotes - Page 64

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

The sport to which I owe so much has undergone profound changes, but it's still baseball. Kids still imitate their heroes on playgrounds. Fans still ruin expensive suits going after foul balls that cost five dollars. Hitting streaks still make the network news and hot dogs still taste better at the ballpark than at home.

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

You can't teach court savvy

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

My free-kick secret? I just look at the net and say take the kick, Cristiano.

Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.

Usually a championship team is built on a strong defense. That is something you can bring to every game. A great attack is always going to be inconsistent - at least on the scoreboard - that's the nature of the game.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

Falling and getting back up is what brings you success.

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils

If you're not nervous, it means you don't care.

Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

Class is striving hard to be the best at what you do while taking the needs of others into consideration

If you feel bad at 10 miles, you're in trouble. If you feel bad at 20 miles, you're normal. If you don't feel bad at 26 miles, you're abnormal.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split second to make up his mind if it's in or out or down or coming at his head, a split second to swing. To do what he did has got to be the most tremendous thing I've ever seen in sports.

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.