Sports Stars Quotes

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

The marketing of players has created untold wealth for many sports stars. You can't blame them or the company that covets the relationship with them, but that doesn't mean the player is good.

Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.

In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else.

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.

I keep getting these extraordinary letters, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.

The people we talk about around water cooler at work or at school, they're all the people who are visible in our media whether it's a sports star or a movie star or a writer or a politician. They are people that have received media exposure and have become important to us in a way that's not realistic.

Being a sport star and a chef both require passion, commitment, work and natural ability.

Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come from a very alive business leader, entertainer, artist or sports star. The most effective of these patrons begin the process of giving by asking what they care about passionately.

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

There's no doubt that he's the biggest sports star in the world now.  (on David Beckham)

My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.

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

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

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

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

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.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

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

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

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

I would just say that I could share what served me, which was trying to find the best material that I could possibly find and make it better. When other celebrities and sports stars, or people that are successful in another area, cross over into movies, they're always encouraged to bring that same tenacity and that same relentless drive that you had to make it. You have to apply that to acting.

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.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.