Quotes About Sports

People in a growth mindset don't just seek challenge, they thrive on it. The bigger the challenge, the more they stretch. And nowhere can it be seen more clearly than in the world of sports. You can just watch people stretch and grow.

Los que tenían mentalidad fija creían que: «Uno tiene que tener cierta habilidad para los deportes, y no puede hacer mucho para cambiar ese nivel realmente». «Para ser bueno en los deportes, debes tener un talento natural». Por el contrario, todos los que tenían mentalidad de crecimiento estaban de acuerdo en que: «La habilidad deportiva siempre mejora si se trabaja duro».

I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.

Can't anybody here play this game?

Most games are lost, not won.

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.

One of the most dangerous sports a family can play together is running a business. That is why royal families are not known for having good relations with their relations.

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.

Competition is the spice of sports but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Who knows how many potential Olympic medalists have turned away from sports because of youth-league coaches who preach that the purpose of life lies in beating the school on the other side of town, and that it doesn't matter how you play the game, just so you win.

Football combines the two worst features of American life: violence and committee meetings.

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

I can't concentrate on golf or bowling. Those bowling pins aren't going to hurt me. I can concentrate in the ring because someone is trying to kill me.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

The rules of soccer are very simple. Basically it's this: If it moves, kick it; if it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

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 spared by affluent society.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

The guy stroked his goatee. What do you call twenty guys watching the world series? The New York Yankees, Butch replied.