167 quotes found
“Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”
“If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.”
“Cricket is baseball on Valium.”
“When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. ”
“On the road we're somebody else's guests and we play in a way that they'renot going to forget we visited them.”
“a lot of football success is in the mind. you must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.”
“The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with...”
“The attraction of snowboarding is the freedom it gives you. With a snowboard on your feet the sky is the limit. You can do anything and go anywhere. This is not just for pro riders. It is for every...”
“Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. ”
“Football is violence and cold weather and college rye. ”
“My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan”
“Swimming is simply moving meditation.”
“Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. ”
“i could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages”
“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”
“If the Olympics ever included American soccer, I can only hope it would be basketball instead of football. Even chess can hurt if you try too hard.”
“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”
“I just mean ... damn ... this might sound a bit crazy, but sometimes you can't help wondering if we don't take all this a bit too seriously. If we aren't putting too much pressure on the juniors. T...”
“I told him how winning never feels as good as losing feels bad and when he asked why, I told him that my wins were for someone else but my losses were all on me.”
“Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.”
