Quotes About Challenge

Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it

If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!

It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

I have brought you to the ring, now you must dance.

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.

When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!

I always thought records were there to be broken.

Not too hard for me to stay motivated when I'm in sport where everyone's trying to knock me out.

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

Football is like life and I know life.

We have to do the impossible, but it is possible.

The start is what stops most people.