Sports Quotations | Page 4

For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

I don't really pretend to know what's going on, but I've been immersed in the excitement of watching sports, particularly football. I like baseball, probably more than football.

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

I actually ended up in fashion as opposed to sport because I needed the money. And it turned out that it tapped all my skills.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we need some things to give young people positive things to do, and that's including jobs.

As you become a legend in the game, you build more doubters than you build supporters. And that's fine. I think that comes with anything that's challenging. I think it even comes with sports. The older that Michael Jordan got, I think the more doubted he became.

The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

When I was about 18, I started to think that I could have a long sporting career.

I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.

There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages.

For me, it is about creating a career - I'm very interested in the sports side and want to continue to do more stuff in that. But ultimately, what I consider myself to be is an actor, and the more variety I can play will continue to round me out.

Dance never really goes away; it just reforms and reinvents, and it's become more athletic with new connection to fitness and sport. Dance used to have this exclusivity, but not any more.

I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.

If you're giving me tickets to the football game, baseball game or hockey game, I'm taking the tickets to the hockey game. For me, it's by far the most fun sport to go and watch live and be part of. I just don't know why it doesn't translate as well on TV.

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

Do I consider myself sexy? It all depends on the way I'm feeling. When I'm happy inside, that's when I feel most sexy.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.

Sporting achievements bestow a sense of unification on the cultures and societies in which they take place and create an outpouring of nationalism and pride.

My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.

I like watching baseball on TV. I love watching all the sports.

I think girls have a harder time than guys do if you're switching schools. Guys don't get picked on as long as you're OK in sports.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.

I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.

The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.

To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life

We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little.

When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.

I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.

Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what its like to really adore something.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.

I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.

It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.