Sports Quotes
+1You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
- Plato
+1You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
- A J Kitt
+1It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
- Muhammad Ali
+1I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
- Gale Sayers
+1Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
- Joe Paterno
+1The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.
- Damon Runyon
+1Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
- Ray Knight
+1It goes to show that Dermot MacMurrough was wrong to invite Strongbow in in 1171 or whatever it was.
- George Hook
+1Not only is there more to life than basketball, there’s a lot more to basketball than basketball.
- Phil Jackson
+1Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.
- Julius Erving
+1You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you’ll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
- Joe Paterno
+1You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. Thats the mark of a true professional.
- Joe Paterno
+1To succeed…You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett
+1Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting ‘Italy! Italy!’ were actually Irish.
- Tom McGurk
+1The principle is competing against yourself.It’s about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
- Steve Young
+1The secret of winning football games is working more as a team, less as individuals. I play not my 11 best, but my best 11.
- Knute Rockne
+1Paris hasn’t witnessed anything this ugly since Charles Laughton starting ringing the bells on top of Notre Dame Cathedral.
- Martin Johnson
+1The 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
+1How 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
+1According to Sports Illustrated, nearly half the high school sports injuries that lead to paralysis or death occur among cheerleaders.
- Thomas Sowell
+1Boxing is for men, and is about men and is men. A celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for being lost.
- Joyce Carol Oates
+1We’re not giving away any football players who could hurt us later. I don’t mind people thinking I’m stupid, but I don’t want to give them any proof.
- Bum Phillips
0To be prepared is half the victory.
- Miguel Cervantes