Sports Quotes - Page 67

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.

You've always got to be aware of why you don't win; otherwise you'll keep losing. Every mistake is a learning experience and, hopefully, you won't make the same mistake again.

Set a goal and make a commitment to meet that goal. Do the best you can, but never forget your roots, never forget where you came from. After you have succeeded, look back and see if there are others that you might help to achieve what you have accomplished.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

I don't want to leave the sport saying I could have run faster. I just want to be tapped out, like I gave it my all.

Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.

True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.

I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.

Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.

We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.

I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.

You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.

If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you're not going to do anything special.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

Golf isn't a sport, it's a game. I'm not saying it's not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it's not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do?