Sports Quotes - Page 83

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up.

I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down.

Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.

I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me. That is one of the great things about sports, and frankly, football really does instill that.

It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.

Winning the world championship in '66 was really the pinnacle of the whole thing, because to win a championship with an Australian made engine was a fantastic feather in our cap.

Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it!

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

The most important decision I ever made in my career was to live my life in sports as honestly and ethically as possible. Never having compromised my values allows me to look back on my life with no regrets and feel satisfaction in what I was able to accomplish.

It is not a bad sport, but there's no place to go.

On coaching the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers: Nobody likes us. Nobody outside Philadelphia, that is. In fact, the nicest thing people say about us is that we are a bunch of muggers.

I think at its best, sport does bring us together.

Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.

Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.

You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.

Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter.

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.