Quotes About Athletics

And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

Nadal's the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game.

I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

Ever since I was young, I played sports.

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

This might sound extreme, perhaps even a little deranged, but I don't think you can make it to the very top rank in any sport if you don't have a similar aversion to losing—a visceral, physical loathing. I look for this trait in an athlete, although the hatred of losing has to be balanced by a certain degree of realism, an ability to step back just enough so that you can process your disappointing performance and learn from it.

Some of my friends who play rugby talk about Murrayfield Stadium as sacred turf.

we have somehow assumed that the interests of speed, or some other function of athletic performance, somehow set aside the requirements of propriety and modesty. In the ancient world, athletes competed naked, and in the modern world, in some events, they might as well be.

if the athletic program is not helping the kids understand God, man, sin, and salvation, then the program is failing, regardless of the win/loss record. But the same thing is true of the "classroom program.

I've been really fortunate, man, I got out of the game after 14 years and ... I certainly got hit plenty, but everything, so far, functions fairly well.

Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.

Football is not a contact sport. It's a collision sport. Dancing is a good example of a contact sport.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

It's been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don't see it. We don't get timeouts, in the middle of a race we can't stop and catch our breath, we can't roll on our stomachs and lie there, and we can't ask for a substitution.

I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs in my life and I never will. Over the course of my career I have taken hundreds of drugs tests and every single one has been negative.

Life's short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you're not going to have them again.