Best 7068 quotes in «sports quotes» category

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel.

If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested.  He now sees other things as more important.  People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

If you can drink beer while doing it, it's not a sport

If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet.

If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there.

If you can pick up a ground ball you'll play for any team you want.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

If you can't handle all the injuries and scars, choose a less demanding sport.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

If you cut corners you just keep on going in circles.

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?

If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.

If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

If you don't think like a winner, you're not going to be a winner.

If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.

If you do what you did yesterday you'll be beaten. If you do today what others are doing you'll be competitive. To win you much be doing today what others will be doing tomorrow.

If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.

If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

If you hate your job, don't worry, you won't have it for long.

If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.

If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.

If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis.

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

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.

If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.

If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.

If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity. If there's no relationship with nature then you become a killer; then you kill baby seals, whales, dolphins, and man either for gain, for "sport," for food, or for knowledge. Then nature is frightened of you, withdrawing its beauty. You may take long walks in the woods or camp in lovely places but you are a killer and so lose their friendship. You probably are not related to anything to your wife or your husband.

If you lose your integrity, you've lost everything.

If you look at the rights situation - what media companies pay - then you see that the rights prices continue to rise for powerful sports. Now what does that tell you? It tells you that the demand amongst global and local sponsors for these kinds of sports is immense, even if there is controversy attached to them like FIFA - who would definitely be number one on that list, though F1 has also been somewhat controversial.

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

If you make it into an Olympic team, you're good; if you make it into an Olympic final, you're great; and if you win an Olympic medal you're a freak.

If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.