Sports Quotes - Page 76

To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

I have always wanted to be liked and respected.

I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

It's important to just kind of get away from your sport until you miss it. It's about taking time to enjoy other aspects of life or learn new things. It helps rejuvenate.

The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy.

You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.

I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can. To be honest with you, I have a tough time keeping weight on.

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

As a student of the game, it is a dream come true to align myself with a brand that has a rich history in sports. Like most kids, I grew up idolizing Michael Jordan and continue to work relentlessly to reach his iconic status on the court. I'm truly motivated to take my career to the next level as a member of Team Jordan.

There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.

My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years.

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.

My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.

I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

Cocaine is totally different than steroids.

There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.

The indoor game is much more of a team game, having to work effectively with a group of 15 to 20 people, striving to improve every day, every drill, even every contact. The beach game is much more of an individual game within a team sport, much less about organized practices with coaches and much more about just playing the game.

Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.

A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.