Best 7068 quotes in «sports quotes» category

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured externally, by comparison to others, is often outside our control, and is perishable.

Succeeding in sport is about how much practise you put in.

Success is a project that's always under construction.

Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.

Success in the sport is, above all else, about enduring suffering.

Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.

Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.

Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.

Success is doing what it takes in spite of one's fear.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.

Surfing is all about living in the moment. When you walk out on the Sydney Cricket Ground to play cricket you're intensely aware of the history of the sport; you're playing on this historic ground surrounded by pictures of the legends. With surfing, you just dive into the water and paddle out and catch waves.

Surfing is real private. It's a solo, loner sport.

Surfers are in tune with the weather because if there's a storm coming, there are waves coming. I love the rain.

Surpassing my achievements feels incredible; I want to replicate that again and again.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

Sure they say we (women) are life givers not takers, but guess what, most women can multi-task and be life givers and fighters. Boxing is not a life-taking sport. Boxing is not a violent sport; it's an art, a dance, a science. Sometimes the smarter boxer wins and sometimes the stronger boxer wins. Of course aggression is a feminine quality. It's a quality that exists in human beings whether they are men or women.

Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.

Surround our children with a message of honor

Surrender. That's an interesting term. We tend to see all forms of surrender as negative--war, sports, highway on-ramps. You'd never hear us describing a relationship as a type of surrender. But maybe we should. Is it wrong to cede the solo to the duet. Surrender doesn't mean you lose, only that you no longer wish to fight.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

Sweet are the uses of adversity

Swimming isn't everything - winning is.

Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.

Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

Take a strong wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as strong. Take a quick wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as quick. Take a technical wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as technical. No matter what kind of wrestler, everyone is afraid of getting tired. It's those who learn to perform when they're tired that find success.