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You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.
Sep 10, 2025
Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.
I've never lost a game I just ran out of time.
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
What's tough is being good every day.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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.
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
You're never a loser until you quit trying.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.