Sports Quotes - Page 3

With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.

The guys who play it [soccer] are kinda dumb. Why don't they just kick the crap out of the guy in front of the net? Then they could score all they want.

A ball feels different off every player's racket-there are minute but concrete subtleties of force and spin. Now, hitting with her (Steffi Graf), I feel her subtleties. It's like touching her, though we're forty feet apart. Every forehand is foreplay.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. All that has been decided for them in advance. All they need to do is follow the orders given to them before the game, showing them where to run and how to violently deploy the meat of their bodies against the meat that is running at them. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the "coach" or "yelling surrogate dad who will never be happy.

a lot of football success is in the mind. you must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Gods, I love sports. All the excitement of real news, only it doesn't matter so you don't have to worry about it.

I've never had an interest, but baseball looks abnormal.

It's not that I really cheat at golf. I play for my health and a low score makes me feel better.

You must make time daily to care for your mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health.

Your productivity will double with increase physical activity.

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

If the clicker became useless in grown men's hands, no games to watch, no highlights shown, ESPN left with only test patterns and re-runs of Rudy, wouldn't the indignation level be a whole lot higher? If sports, all sports, all levels, were shut down, wouldn't the big clock be ticking a lot louder? Wouldn't John Boehner be calling the President and vice versa? Wouldn't Ted Cruz have to shut up in a hurry?

Turns out I’m not so easily broken.

Where is it written in the Constitution that because a guy played football, he has the automatic right to sit in that booth? How hard is football? If I've spent thirty-five years as a sportswriter, you think I don't know you get six for a touchdown? You think I don't know that? You think I don't know you get three for a field goal? C'mon, c'mon. And I can actually speak English okay, so that would be a difference between me and a guy who spent his whole life playing football. Now, not all of them are like that, but it's that thinking that says, "We have divine right of booth." No, you don't. No you don't.

Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.

When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed. When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped; nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development. The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change; yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.

As I run I tell myself to think of a river. And clouds. But essentially I'm not thinking of a thing. All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.

Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.

A friend tells a story about taking his ten-year-old son to a Jets game. The game was being played during a driving rain on a freezing cold day, and the Jets lost by twenty points to a team they were supposed to beat. As they headed toward the exits, the boy looked up, with tears in his eyes, and asked, 'Dad, why are we Jets fans?

I get confused with all the rules in golf. Let's say you're playing in L.A. and your ball lands on a dead body. Is your relief one or two club lengths?

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?"Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten. Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?"Any nausea? Headache?" Yep. And it's standing here talking to me.

Sports bars are also a great place for guys to meet other guys--either for sex or for wrestling, whichever feels more right.

In Texas, two things are cherished above all else- football and gossip.

The burn is my girlfriend, failure is my ex. I'm married to the track and engaged to success.

He only said the one word. A prayer. A supplication. A breath from his heart to mine.

As a woman I resent the fact that in golf if I have the highest score I'm the loser.

Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it’s easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.

When we cuss each other out, call each other the vilest names on earth, and put each other down with thoughtless cruelty, it is the only way we know and the only language we have to express our ardent love for each other.

Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.

Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

The secret of winning any prize is knowing that your own treasure and potential is equal to it... and worthy of it.

Martial Arts does not teach you how to fight, it teaches you why not to.

Golf is a good preoccupation but as the meaning of life ... it lacks a few things.

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that’s in rhythm or you’re in trouble. Your rhythm should set the pace of the fight. If it does, then you penetrate your opponent’s rhythm. You make him fight your fight, and that’s what boxing is all about.

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this

If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.

In my opinion any activity during which you can enjoy a beverage is not a sport. It is a party.

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.

Slumps are like a soft bed. They are easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Life would be better if the Leafs would make the playoffs. Life would be perfect if they’d win the Stanley Cup.

Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream.

If You Respect Their Preparation,You never Drop the Baton

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

Dancing daily is a good physical activity.

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

Every name looks fashionable when it's etched in silver. (Stanley Cup)

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

Love of sports will always break your heart, but in doing so, it reminds us we have one.

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.

I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my inability to work up a passion for the location of balls.

Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Champions never sleep, the eternal spirit keep them alert and awake.

I can only run at pace of my breath.

He'd never considered sweet and conservative to be so hot, but damn, Emma wore it well.

The upset is in the mind of the favorite.

One hit, one moan of fractured air, one solid impact and the man went down.