Quotes on Sports

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Act as though it were impossible to fail.

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore.

I had a clear vision of myself winning the Mr. Universe contest. It was a very spiritual thing, in a way, because I had such faith in the route, the path, that there was never a question in my mind that I would make it.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

Live as if you were living already for the second time.

Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to.

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.