Quotes on Sports

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

Being named among the best is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.

My single young friends, we counsel you to channel your associations with the opposite sex into dating patterns that have the potential to mature into marriage, not hanging-out patterns that only have the prospect to mature into team sports like touch football. Marriage is not a group activity—at least not until the children come along in goodly numbers

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.