Sports Quotations | Page 10

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.

If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.

The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.

These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years.

And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

I'm excited to join my brother-in-law Ken Thomson every Tuesday night on SiriusXM to recap all of the awesome NFL action, and to find out what in the Wylde world of sports is going on.

There will soon be streams of data coming from all manner of products - appliances, clothing, sporting goods, you name it. Wouldn't you rather live in a world where you can export the data from your son's football helmet to a new app that monitors force and impact against a cohort of high school players around the country?

I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.

Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

I think that every single person should play sports.

Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.

I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.

Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.

I love this sport and I don't want to get involved in politics.

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

Leadership is one of sports' intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, 'Follow me.'

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.

When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy.

I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you wherever you go.

I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.

Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

Like the rabid fans of sports, the same goes for fans and their actors, TV shows and movies. You love what you love, and it bonds you with others who love the same thing.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.

For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.

It came so soon and so fast. It's just overwhelming. Every time I think about it, I just can't believe it.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.

If you think you can do it, you can.

It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.

I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.

As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

You can't afford to live your life with regrets.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that.

A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.

If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.