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The aspect of sport that you learn is that you have your good times and your bad times, but you share it with great people.
No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. Hes the best Ive ever seen.
I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.
You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.
Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
Sports bars are also a great place for guys to meet other guys--either for sex or for wrestling, whichever feels more right.
You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.
Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
There never was a champion who to himself was a good loser. There's a vast difference between a good sport and a good loser.
A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.
How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.
People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.
You get the kids today into the sport, and then they can't get to the "next level." I mean, come on, that's a bunch of junk.
The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.
I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
I have always been physically active. I grew up a tomboy and [was] into sports, so staying active is something that I enjoy.
My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car, all I listen to is sports talk.
Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.
Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.
We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.
It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.
If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.
Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.
The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.
I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing.
Rodeoing is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and horses, and they wouldn't understand you.
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.
All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.
There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax.
I love boxing, and boxing has always been my favorite sport. I was always into it, and I boxed recreationally all of my life.
I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.
You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.
So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.
A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.
I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.
The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]
Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.
Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.