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I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.
I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.
It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.
Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.
I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.
I started in this sport at 12 years of age and the goals I set was to be among the best and be the world champion.
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.
One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.
Sports must become an indispensable and inseparable part of our social life. Competitiveness is just a by-product.
The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.
I like most everything about my various jobs. The bottom line is I'm really fortunate to get paid to cover sports.
UFC is not a competitor to the WWE because we are entertainment and UFC is competitive sport. It's very different.
I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.
Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.
To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.
And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.
Always believe in yourself and never give up because you don't know what success could be right around the corner.
I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.
Cycling is such an endurance sport. I don't think it's the worst thing ever to start when you're in your twenties.
I think that kids aren't even exploring the option of sports anymore, and they don't even know what they could do.
I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.
I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what its like to really adore something.
Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?
Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right
I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings.
Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.
I don't know nothing about the sport. Just tune in August 28th and y'all find out how much I know about the sport.
You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.
When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.
I do Pilates. And that's best for me... because I can't really do any other sports any more because of my muscles.
With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.
I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.
If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
I believe you can do 99 percent of the things right but not possess a positive winning attitude, and you will fail.
I got 304's in 310 on Section 8, with multiple 187's... Sport a Marilyn Manson t-shirt when I die and go to heaven.
You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress.
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be.
I really love all sport. I watch sports when I can, but when push comes to show, I think I know it's entertainment.