Sports Quotes - Page 81

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.

There are so many aspects to the sport. It never gets boring because you always do something different. Maybe you train really hard on a sport climbing and get tunnel vision for a while, but as soon as you burn out a bit, you concentrate on another aspect, like traveling. You see the world through the vehicle of climbing.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.

And I watch Saturday Night Live religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.

It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.

I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves.

Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children.

I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.

We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.

I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.

A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.