Quotes About Perspective

It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.

A great catch is like watching girls go by. The last one you see is always the prettiest.

I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.

I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.

When asked about which team is the toughest team in the league, responded with an answer that all volleyball players must comprehend. He said simply that it was, 'The team you are playing.'

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

Most of us are referees at heart; we like to call throws and errors on someone else.