Sports Quotes - Page 65

We have one life / It soon will be past / What we do for God / Is all that will last.

It's no shame to fall down, but it is a shame to just stay down.

I'm legitimately having more fun doing music, but at the same time I worked my whole life for baseball. If I had to pick, I would probably pick music. I just connect more with the fact that other people connect with that I'm doing so much. It's a much cooler thing than being good at sports.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

I could sum it up in one thing: A guy has to be what he is. He's got to coach and have a philosophy based on his own personality. You see too many coaches trying to imitate other coaches, trying to be someone else. It's all right to emulate the qualities of good coaches but I don't think you should imitate. You've got to be yourself.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

There are times when you're tired and times when you don't believe in yourself. That's when you have to stick it out and draw on the confidence that you have deep down beneath all the doubts and worries.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high.

As someone that was a good ambassador of a growing sport, that always wanted to fight the best fighters and always gave the fans the best he could give.

Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and losing is when pressure hits.

One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.

Success in the sport is, above all else, about enduring suffering.

If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at.

The news might be single-handedly trying to bring about an environmental catastrophe, which it will then report on. Super injunctions are interesting legal weapons really, they don't just gag the press, they gag them from mentioning the existence of the gag. Sport belongs in a news bulletin about as much as a mummified cat's head belongs in a Caesar salad. Combine the "mounting pressure" with the "growing cause" and you've got yourself a "media whirlwind" which you can also refer to.