Sports Quotes - Page 87

I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking back it makes so much sense. It's like it was a fight against the photograph.

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game

The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

Every day as a kid, I went to the boxing gym. I knew boxing before I knew anything else. And I was once told if you show your child how to do something and you constantly push them, then eventually they'll become masters. They'll become a master of their craft. So that's probably what happened with me and the sport of boxing.

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.

The price of success: hard work, patience, and a few sacrifices.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

Like they say, it ain't over 'til the fat guy swings

A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.

Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

Little did I know that the sport I loved and the skills I learned would later play a role in my relationship with God.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

I am aware that many regard me as an anti-sports character person, but the truth is that the country's economy by then was in bad shape. Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy.

I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.