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Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.
I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.
My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.
Experience is invaluable. I can't express enough how much experience in this sport has helped me as a driver.
You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.
I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.
Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.
Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.
The kind of player who has turned his game around, he used to be lousy and lazy and now he is lazy and lousy.
I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.
I really hope that what we are doing inspires young Mexican girls not to be afraid to get involved in sports.
The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.
I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive
Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.
Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.
Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.
There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.
The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.
Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.
The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.
I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.
I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.
We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.
My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.
I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.
When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.
My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.
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.
When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.
It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins.
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
The only thing that counts is your dedication to the game. You run on your own fuel; it comes from within you.
Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports.
Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.
What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.
Sports also teaches you that it's about the team, and the better your teammates are, the better they make you.