Best Sports Quotes

I think at its best, sport does bring us together.

I've always thought basketball was the best sport, although it wasn't the sport I was best at. It was just the most fun to watch.

Lacrosse is probably the best sport I ever played.

I am simply the very best sports entertainer

We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

Jimmy Demaret and I had the best sports psychologist in the world. His name was Jack Daniels and he was waiting for us after every round.

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college and I guess I agreed with them or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.

I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going, I cannot be stopped, I just keep going.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

Don't let this[football] be the best thing that ever happens in your life. Maybe it'll be the best sports event, but don't let it be the best thing. Make sure you're a better father than this today. Make sure you're a better husband than this today. Because this goes away... It's a game.

Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more.

I run to see who has the most guts.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

I'll let the racket do the talking.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century or so and watching them collaborate: 'OK, Twain, you do the dialogue and hand off to Faulkner. He'll do the interior monologue. Hemingway will edit - no, don't make that face, you know you overwrite. And be nice to Cheever. He's young, but he's got a good ear. Wharton and Cather can't play - they're girls.'

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

If you don't know where you're going any road will do