Sports Quotes - Page 66

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.

If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

Never have a club in your bag that you're afraid to hit.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

Prayer is the passport to peace.

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as it may seem coming from the author of the earlier chapters, is that, for an understanding of the evolution of modern man, we must begin by throwing out the gene as the sole basis of our ideas on evolution. If there is only one Creator who made the tiger and the lamb, the cheetah and the gazelle, what is He playing at? Is he a sadist who enjoys spectator blood sports? ... Is he manuvering to maximize David Attenborough's television ratings?

I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring. From bell to bell, from when my entrance plays and I step through that curtain, people have to wonder what's going on inside that guy's head.

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

Jamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.