Quotes About Athletics

I cracked one over a row a trailers that bordered the outfield fence- hit it so hard that Ted Williams came running out from the clubhouse wanting to know who it was that could a bat sound that way when it struck a baseball.

You can't be fat and fast, too so lift, run, diet and work.

I'm not a big sports fan.

I took off my sweatshirt and dropped it on the grass and set off around the track. As soon as I started running, the world changed. The bodies spread out across the green of the football field were parts of a scene remembered, not one real at this moment. The secret of effort is to keep on, I told myself. Not for the world would I have stopped then, and yet nothing- not even if I had been turned handsome as a reward for finishing- could have made up for the curious pain of the effort.

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my inability to work up a passion for the location of balls.

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.

How can a guy hit and think at the same time

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

Louisville Slugger.

Nice tackle, babe. Ranger

I'm not getting involved in sports anymore, except on film. I'm not agile unless a camera's going.

Unlike most sports playing fields, a boxing ring is a temporary structure.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Unlike GGG, who just boxed Steve Rolls who was ranked about 81 in the world, I'm fighting real guys.

Unlike cricket or tennis, athletics receive no money and so it remains a poor man's sport.

I'm an exciting fighter and I always live up to the hype, unlike some other fighters who disappoint.

Sports provides the chance for the athlete, unlike the ordinary person, to open the door and meet people.

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

I'd most prefer to be a free agent and fight up to six times a year, but that is unlikely.

If nerves undo you, then you're unlikely to make it as a top footballer.

I've been a bit unlucky with small injuries.