Quotes About Athletics

You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.

I think in the playoffs you have to be able to run the ball to get to the Super Bowl.

London 2012 was superb. It was the best triathlon experience in a million years.

If I were playing today, I'd steal the ball from these guys when they go under the ball with their hands because that's when they have less control of their dribble. Once you go under the ball, there;s nothing you can do except carry it or pick it up. Whereas with the yo-yo dribble, I could dribble a little quicker- change my and cadence- to elude my defender

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors.

that Ruth's power as a player was gone. He was thirty-nine years old and his hard living had caught up with him.

Analysis of thousands of sequences of shots led to a disappointing conclusion: there is no such thing as a hot hand in professional basketball, either in shooting from the field or scoring from the foul line.

When you're as small as I am, people don't expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low expectations, or you rise above them.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

Sports are not for everyone.

I love all sports.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

President Teddy Roosevelt argued that organized athletics could be the means for instilling the character and values deemed necessary to make America a global power in the century to come. Sports could breed a sense of hard work, self-discipline, and the win-at-all-cost ethic of competition. Roosevelt once said, presumably while swinging a big stick,

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.

There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both.

I wish you smoked. I don't know why you don't. You weren't an athlete in high school or anything, were you?" "No." "That's why Bun doesn't smoke. Some clean-living type of football

Son of a Clemson football star turned banker.

Though he "never conquered asthma completely," suffering spasms at irregular intervals for decades, he had strengthened his body sufficiently so that he could participate in a wide array of sports. He wrestled and sparred, ran three or four miles a day, took up rowing and tennis, and continued to work out in the gym. Though he failed to excel in any of these activities, he derived immense satisfaction from the sheer fact of overcoming his earlier invalidism.

The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.