Sports Quotes - Page 249

I don't think this is an example of life and limb being at risk. I like the fact that our fans care.

When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by preliminary talk and to know how long to follow it, to lose your gain through poorly directed argument, to hang on to game that finally eludes, to boldly confront, to quickly circle around, to keep on the trail, tireless and keen, till you have bagged some orders, there is some satisfaction in returning at night, tired of the trail, but proud of the days work done.

'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.

Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.

If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.

As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.

I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

I've never ridden a hog. I only have sport bikes. But that's basically how I get around L.A. Because traffic is horrendous.

I like to play video games, I like to keep up with sports, and I just like to spend time with people, because I'm on the road so much that when I'm home, I like to spend time with people that I don't normally get to see.

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.

We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.

I don't think I have ever been out of control.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For the first 12 years of my life we lived in a terrible ghetto on the East River.

But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.

I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.

We're not playing solitaire out here.

I think girls hate each other, no doesn't always mean no, you have to lie to stay married, women's sports are boring and the Olympics are gay.