Quotes on Sports

With football, you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two-game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.

It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery.

These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.

One hundred percent of shots not taken don't go in.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

The start is what stops most people.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

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