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You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun.
The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.
Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.
It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.
I'm a firm believer that all sports will eventually be global. Someday, we may have a quarterback from China named Yao Fling.
I watch a lot of sports. One of the reasons I watch is to see how these guys handle pressure, how they respond to situations.
I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.
Sports is something that transcends generations, transcends backgrounds, cultures, races. And so the power of sports is real.
Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues
I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.
I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people
I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.
Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time.
I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.
I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.
I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups
Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.
Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.
Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.
I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.
I like to test myself and see where I am and how I am against other people in this sport. I think that's the real draw for me.
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.
The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.
Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.
Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.
My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.
My kids used to do things to aggravate me, too. I'd take them to a game, and they'd want to come home with a different player.
Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.
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.
Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera.
I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.
In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.
Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.
When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.
You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.
You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everythings OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.
As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.
I loved the adrenalin rush of the skeleton, and would love to do it as a Paralympic sport if they ever bring it into the Games.
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.