Sports is human life in microcosm.
Howard Cosell

Show me a guy whos afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Lou Brock

Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead.

Dont look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige

Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.

If at first you dont succeed, you are running about average.
M.H. Alderson

When I step onto the court, I don’t have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It’s like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.
Michael Jordan

When someone tells me the is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, I’m gonna prove you wrong.
Picabo Street

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you’ll win… channel your energy. Focus.
Carl Lewis

The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I’m starting to believe that.
Dan OBrien

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That’s why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.
Tiger Woods

When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.
Bill Shoemaker

I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
Shaquille O’Neal

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Seneca

Whoever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost.
Martina Navratilova

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club wont be worth a dime.
Babe ruth

Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, thats the day you start to the top.
O.J. Simpson

I’ll let the racket do the talking.
John McEnroe

The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.
Don Coryell

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
Katarina Witt

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
John Madden

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi

When you’re playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.
Pat Riley

The trouble with referees is that they just don’t care which side wins.
Tom Canterbury

Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.
William A. Ward

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.
Don Drysdale

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Charlie Finley

With the money I’m making, I should be playing two positions.
Pete Rose

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
A J Kitt

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That’s why men need instant replays in sports. They’ve already forgotten what happened.
Rita Rudner

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Archie Griffen

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren’t we all?
Vin Scully

There’s no substitute for guts.
Paul Bear Bryant

I don’t know. I never smoked AstroTurf.
Tug McGraw

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
Alberto Tomba

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
Jack Handey

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Lou Holtz

Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start – but they can’t when they finish.
Martin H. Fischer

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging
Hank Aaron

October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.
Jason Love

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Joe Paterno

I would have thought that the knowledge that you are going to be leapt upon by half-a-dozen congratulatory, but sweaty team-mates would be inducement not to score a goal.
Arthur Marshall

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn’t do you any good.
Abe Lemmons

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Muhammad Ali

The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore de Balzac

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
Mary Russell Mitford

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that
whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Vince Lombardi

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.
J.J. Bentley

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan

I know we’re meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we’re still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.
Rob Lee

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
Sylvester Stallone

If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
Herschel Walker

Professional wrestling’s most mysterious hold is on its audience.
Luke Neely

The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.
George Shultz

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It’s a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.
Kevin Keegan

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
Greg LeMond

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it’s the opposition.
Nick Seitz

To succeed…You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Tony Dorsett

We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it.
John F. Kennedy

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
Magic Johnson

The umpire… is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.
Neville Cardus

Set your goals high, and dont stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson

Most games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
Gale Sayers

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H.L. Mencken

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a mans determination.
Tommy Lasorda

The more I practice, the luckier I get.
Jerry Barber

There’s nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn’t cure.
Mike Penner

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Coach Darrel Royal

If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you’re going to have problems. You’ll be dead a lot.
Dean Smith

You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
Damon Runyon

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.
Steven Wright

It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired you quit when the gorilla is tired.
Robert Strauss

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
Al McGuire

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
Ronnie Lott

I think you enjoy the game more if you don’t know the rules. Anyway you’re on the same wavelength as the referees.
Jonathan Davies

The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Steve Young

If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn’t, it’s that girls should stick to girls’ sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.
Homer Simpson

I know that Im never as good or bad as any single performance. Ive never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I’ve always been able to leave the game at the arena.
Charles Barkley

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett

Losing is the great American sin.
Jerome Holtzman

Whats the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
Terry Bradshaw

The essence of sports is that while you’re doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.
Roger Bannister

Ain’t no chance if you dont take it.
Guy Clark

If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi

In war there is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
Emil Zatopek

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you’ll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
Joe Paterno

It’s like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.
Joe Kinnear

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. Thats the mark of a true professional.
Joe Paterno

I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.
Robin Williams

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
Ray Knight

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.
Ron Bolton

To be prepared is half the victory.
Miguel Cervantes

If you screw things up in tennis, it’s 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it’s your ass.
Randall “Tex” Cobb

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon

I was called “Rembrandt” Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
Bob Hope

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
Jean-Claude Killy

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
Roland Barthes

Everyone has limits on the time they can devote to exercise, and cross-training simply gives you the best return on your investmentbalanced fitness with minimum injury risk and maximum fun.
Paula Newby-Fraser

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you get off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you’re in a slump. If you lose at the end, you’re choking.
Gene Mauch

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fearnot absence of fear.
Mark Twain

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.
Eddie Shaw

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.
Robert Lynd

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
Chuck Noll

In play there are two pleasures for your choosing -
The one is winning, and the other losing.
Lord Byron

When you’re are playing for the national championship, it’s not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.
Duffy Daugherty

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
Alec Douglas Home

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vincent T. Lombardi

Cricket is baseball on valium.
Robin Williams

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you’ll win….Channel your energy. Focus.
Carl Lewis

Life is simply a cricket match, with temptation as the bowler.

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.
Dennis Waitley

If horses can’t eat it, I won’t play on it.
Dick Allen

There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or youre OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.
Pat Riley

Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever.
Vince McKewin

The game isn’t over till it’s over.
Yogi Berra

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit.

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
Bob Richards

Losers quit when they’re tired. Winners quit when they’ve won.

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John Wooden

You’re playing worse every day and right now you’re playing like the middle of next week.

I’ll always be Number 1 to myself.
Moses Malone

The ball is man’s most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.
Robert Morley

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson

Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow.
John Mariucci

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.
Red Smith

You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you’re tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.
Joe Namath

Motor racing’s less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.
Peter Dunne

If you don’t do whats best for your body, you’re the one who comes up on the short end.
Julius Erving

Sport is a preserver of health.
Hippocrates

If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just finish the raceits up to you.
Dave Scott

It is not how big you are, it’s how big you play.

I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didnt have a chance to win.
Arnold Palmer

A tough day at the office is even tougher when your office contains spectator seating.
Nik Posa

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
Pat Riley

The key is not the “will to win” – everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
Bobby Knight

If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers

All a manager has to do is keep eleven players happy – the eleven in the reserves. The first team are happy because they are in the first team.
Rodney Marsh

I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.
Jean-Claude Killy

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.
Gordie Howe

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.
Al Attles

Other people may not have had high expectations for me… but I had high expectations for myself.
Shannon Miller

Winning isn’t overrated – it’s your acceptance of being rated.
Carrie Latet

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
Bruce Jenner

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It’s like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
Bill Lee

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
Van Morrison

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I’ll win a pennant every year.
Sparky Anderson

He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Finish last in your league and they call you Idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you Doctor.
Abe Lemons

In the Scottish Cup you only get one crack at the cherry against Rangers or Celtic
Tom Ferrie

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.
Andrew Dickson White

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.

Football features two of the worst aspects of American life, violence and committee meetings
George Will

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

We can’t win at home and we can’t win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can’t think of another place to play.
Pat Williams

Brundle is driving an absolutely pluperfect race.
Murray Walker

Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.