Best 7068 quotes in «sports quotes» category

The kind of player who has turned his game around, he used to be lousy and lazy and now he is lazy and lousy.

The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

The Lord calls us to love everybody. Every day it's a challenge. Within this sport, I'm called to love everybody. That means that every single German or Canadian that I want to beat, I still have to love. That means competing the way God wants me to compete. That means doing things that might not necessarily be seen as giving me a competitive advantage but instead doing what God would want me to do.

The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

The machine may even carry mail is special cases. But the useful load will be very small. The machines will eventually be fast, they will be used in sport, but they are not to be thought of as commercial carriers.

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.

The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

The main challenge is technology and that's something I really push and work closely with Adidas on. They're real leaders in sports performance; always trying to push that further and further and get the best technology they can. That takes time and has rigorous testing, it's very laborious, but it's also very rewarding. You get to work with fantastic athletes, and that's a fantastic thing that has nothing to do with my day job in ready-to-wear.

The main thing is media attention which is good publicity for the sport. As I'm the only women in this championship I would like to think that it encourages other young females to get into it. Also the media helps me in getting sponsorship.

The majority of people pull for the underdog. Heck, even your friends don't like you to be too successful. We've lost enough over the years for me to maintain my friendships.

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.

The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

The marketing of players has created untold wealth for many sports stars. You can't blame them or the company that covets the relationship with them, but that doesn't mean the player is good.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching.

The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that.

The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge.

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.

The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system.

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths, identifies weaknesses, points up principles, offers guiding and often inspiring imagery, and decides what kind of practice to emphasize.

The Mets just had their first .500-or-better April since July of 1992.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

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

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

The more attention that is drawn to any of the fighters, especially in a positive way, is good for the sport.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

The more people who come from abroad who played soccer and are brought up playing it and watching it, then come over to America and bring what they know and what they play, that's how the sport will grow.

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.

The Morrigan’s ideas of sport and mine varied widely. As a Chooser of the Slain, she tends to enjoy nothing so much as a protracted war. She hangs out with Kali and the Valkyries and they have a death goddesses’ night out on the battlefield.

The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.

The most important decision I ever made in my career was to live my life in sports as honestly and ethically as possible. Never having compromised my values allows me to look back on my life with no regrets and feel satisfaction in what I was able to accomplish.

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.