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When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him

Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.

We resist mindlessness of any kind. Again, drugs, like television, are fine for other people. The more enslaved they are, the easier it is for us, as long as they stay out of our way. Whether it’s through religiously-imposed ignorance, spectator sports, crack, pot, coke, heroin—or the consumer insecurities imposed by the almighty Tube—it’s fine with us as long as it keeps sheep more docile and easily contained. That doesn’t mean we have to subject ourselves to it. Military generals don’t step out on the missile range and volunteer as targets for the latest prototype weapons

For softball, we need the Olympics. For young girls dreaming of that Olympic dream, that's where it's at, and that's where it all started in '96 for our sport.

I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women. They ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete.

In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice for fear of letting his teammates down. Every time an athlete thought of getting back into bed in the morning he knew he would have to face the anger of his closest friends. But the sculler had to find motivation entirely within himself. No one else cared.

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football during a head-on collision, pain in other sports on the occasion of a serious injury. That was more the threat of pain; in rowing there was the absolute guarantee of it every time.

I don't pay much attention to sports.

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.