Quotes on Sports

I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.

Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.

I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.

When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum at the heart of their capital. Our fate can be different; but only if we start doing things differently.

You have to make the rules, not follow them

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

Everything is hard before it is easy.

All we got is the family unbroke.

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?