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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
Sep 17, 2025
The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.
Great sport has intellectual beauty.
Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.
The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.
That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.
In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport... I would say most hunters are Christian men.
Anybody involved in sports in Missouri knows it's a great sports state. It is a great sports state, particularly in basketball and baseball. Particularly. Not to demean football, but it's a baseball state and a basketball state.
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
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.
The principle is competing against yourself.
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.
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.
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.
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
If you can't outplay them, outwork them.
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.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
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.
You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
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.
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.
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
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.