Quotes About Athletics

How can you think and hit at the same time?

Baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical.

75% of baseball is mental the other half is phisical

Ninety percent of baseball is mental, the other half is physical.

Sports are 90% mental, and the other half is physical

A running quarterback, to me, is safer. Because, once I got out [of the pocket], I didn?t run where there were a lot of people. I ran where there was nobody.

Did you play any sports?" Malcolm questioned as he took a bite of his salad. "Cheerleading!" "That's not a sport!" he said with a laugh. "You wish!

Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.

Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

I became a wrestler because I loved a certain kind of aggression born, in part, of joy.

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

Let's do it then." I reached forward and poked his bare chest with two fingers like we were actors in a gangster movie. "You and me,on the slopes, head-to-head,the slalom and the half-pipe.I will kick." Poke. "Your." Poke. "Ass.

Of course you'll win!" Chloe exclaimed. "You'll probably beat nick in that race thing-" "Boardercross," I corrected her.Chloe owned a snowboard,and thats about as far as her knowledge of the sport went. "-And you'll blow him away in the trick part." "Half pipe.And then there's the jump.

LACROSSE MATCH

The dieter will fail as long as he hates low-calorie food. The would-be athlete will fail as long as he hates exertion. The tightwad wannabe will fail as long as he views frugality as a lifestyle he has to endure, or was forced into by circumstance.

Les tortues ne participent pas à l'athlétisme

Freed from thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, stop feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

Hitting a ball dead perfect - the only peace.

Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's opponent provides a kind of companionship, someone he can grapple with and grunt at. In tennis you stand face-to-face with the enemy, trade blows with him, but never touch him or talk to him, or anyone else

To be in the All-Star Weekend is something that's special.

If there's competition in training, then the training is intense, and then you have the pressure of a weekend that if you don't put in good performances, then your place is maybe up for grabs.