Sports Quotes - Page 72

When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

You cannot be successful without passion. If you don't love what you're doing, if you don't have passion for it - forget it. Do something else. You'll be much more successful and you'll lead a lot happier life.

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.

I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate to win a few times. We spend our whole lives trying to conquer something, and we lose a lot more than we win.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.

No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.

When you use the steroids, you use them for a long time. When you use the steroids for a long time, you have a problem. It’s a drug and it’s not good for the sport.

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

You have to have passion for anything you do. Whether it's sports, whether it's music, whether you want to be Mother Theresa, you have to have passion for what it is you do, or what's the point in getting up in the morning and getting out of bed?

We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.

I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don't think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete.

There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.