"Chess has definitely helped me understand a lot of the strategy of football. In chess, good offense is often an exercise in putting multiple points ….

As Christians, we're asked to give. In my sport, if someone needs equipment or help with something, regardless of who they are as a competitor, I'm c….

I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven..

"Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in co….

If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is….

If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kin….

Coach may have been the greatest innovator the sport has ever had..

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owner….

Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she….

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great st….

I don't have any ideas; my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments..

October: that's when they pay off for playing ball..

First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are no….

When I was 15, I had lucky underwear. When that failed, I had a lucky hairdo, then a lucky race number, even lucky race days. After 15 years, I've fo….

Every time a player goes out there, at least 20 people have some amount of influence on him. His mother has more influence than anyone. I know becaus….

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium..

I think young people ought to seek that differential experience that is going to knock them off dead center. I was a typical American school boy. I h….

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent m….

True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepa….

David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly gen….

I ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me..