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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with my life.
The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.
I'm one of these people that likes adrenaline and new things, like extreme sports. It makes me feel alive.
There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes
Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.
As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.
For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.
I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose.
The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled
Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.
Officiating is the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who is doing it.
Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.
But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.
Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.
I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.
I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do
Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.
Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.
You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.
He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.
It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in.
I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.
Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.
You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me
The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.
Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.
I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.
The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports.
Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in.
I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.
I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.
Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.
I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.
Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.
Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.
My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.
I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.