Quotes on Sports

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

When you're surfing you're not thinking about where you parked the car or what you're going to do when you grow up or what you're going to buy when you've got lots of money. You know, you're just there. You're in the moment. And I think in a contemporary world, that's a rare privilege.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work.

Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes.

The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.