Sports Quotes - Page 7

There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not.

Good is not good when better is expected.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.

People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general.

Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for.

EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.