Quotes on Motivational Sports

Sport is a preserver of health.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

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

When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder.

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way, and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me.

I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me peace of mind.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.