Sports Quotes - Page 10

Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.

It’s you and me, and all you have to do is breathe. I’m going to take care of everything else.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.

You didn't play baseball that well with two hands. How do you think you're going to make it with one? "If you're just going to tell me what I can't do, you can leave.

The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends....

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what’s inside someone until he’s tested.

Increased physical activity enhances positive energy

If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win

You have to love what you do, to give your best.

If people focused on life's really important matters there'd be a shortage of golf clubs.

If you want to know if your kid is going to be fast, the best genetic test right now is a stopwatch. Take him to the playground and have him face the other kids.' Foster's point is that, despite the avant-garde allure of genetic testing, gauging speed indirectly is foolish and inaccurate compared with testing it directly - like measuring a man's height by dropping a ball from a roof and using the time it takes to hit him in the head to determine how tall he is. Why not just use a tape measure?

[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'", March 25, 2007.)

They X-rayed my head and found nothing.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

Sorry! I didn't mean to say that," I mumble into the pillow next to her head."Oh.""No! I mean, I meant what I said. I just didn't mean to tell you.

The attraction of snowboarding is the freedom it gives you. With a snowboard on your feet the sky is the limit. You can do anything and go anywhere. This is not just for pro riders. It is for everyone.The other amazing thing with snowboarding is how easy it is to get away from people and enjoy the solitude of the mountains. Its almost impossible in surfing but with snowboarding it is a short hike from the top of the lift or the side of the road.

I asked my instructor how I could cut ten strokes off my score. He told me to quit on hole 17!

They'll die in overtime

Always have a 'Plan C

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.

What a terrible round. I only hit two good balls all day and that was when I stepped on a rake in a bunker.

What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown.