Quotes on Sports

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?

It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

In female sports, if you're gay, most likely your team knows it pretty quickly. It's very open and widely supported. For males, it's not that way at all. It's sad.

I think there's a lot of gay women in sports, and it's widely known in the team; they can live a pretty open lifestyle without being open in the media.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

My family was always present when I needed them and sometimes felt even stronger emotions than me.

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

Life is not a spectator sport.

When Sunday loses its fundamental meaning and becomes subordinate to a secular concept of weekend dominated by such things as entertainment and sport, people stay locked within a horizon so narrow that they can no longer see the heavens.

I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.