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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Sep 29, 2025
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
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.
It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.
Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.
I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.
The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.
Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
I'll let the racket do the talking.
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.
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.
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
You can't put a limit anything.
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world
If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery, a voice crying in the wilderness, condemned to live and die on a cold arctic shore.
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
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.
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.