Quotes on Sports

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

Individuals score points, but teams win games.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.