47 quotes found
“Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.”
“It is naive to think that sport is above politics, that any kind of level playing field exists, or that sport allows the world to put its problems on hold.”
“Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
“Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.”
“Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it's been.”
“You can't think and hit at the same time.”
“Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to race tracks at the age of two and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.”
“It you watch a game it's fun. If you play it it's recreation. If you work at it it's golf.”
“Winning can be defined as the science of being totally prepared.”
“Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.”
“When you win nothing hurts.”
“Let's win this one for the Gipper.”
“Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been sp...”
“It is in games that many men discover their paradise.”
“International sport is war without shooting.”
“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”
“Every time you win you're reborn when you lose you die a little.”
“Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.”
“If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you'll be fired with enthusiasm.”
“Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race religion or wealth: and where the only concern is 'Have you come to play?'”
