Sports Quotes - Page 9

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out.

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.

Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

IPL does not allow Pakistani players because they are dangerous.

To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore.

Everyone that works behind a desk wants to know how many bones I've broken and how much money I make. It seems that people who've never experienced the excitement of sport seem to think the only thing worth taking risks for is money.

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.