The only thing that helps you win the game is preparation and getting your mind ready to go to battle. That's what… — Mark Richt Copy Share Image
This sport swings so quickly. One minute you're a hero, the next you're zero, and it can swing as quickly as from… — George Russell Copy Share Image
No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen. — Curtis Joseph Copy Share Image
To me the Olympic spirit embodies the magic of competition, hard work and coming to a point in your career when you're… — Julia Mancuso Copy Share Image
Racing is a great sport, but we need people to come along and see that for themselves. Maybe they're not used to… — Tony McCoy Copy Share Image
I love the physical part of the game. But I wanted to be a receiver, not just a big guy playing receiver. — Demaryius Thomas Copy Share Image
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing… — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
When you're losing everyone wants to be your opponent, but when you're winning, your competition will start filtering away — Danielle Lobbins Copy Share Image
[At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm… — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
Part of the experience of enjoying a tennis match on TV is listening to the observations of an expert commentator -- one… — Dave McPherson Copy Share Image
I'm a big golfer, so in the offseason, that's all I do - golf and play basketball. But during the season, I… — Mike Conley Jr Copy Share Image
Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
There's very few of us who are able to be successful, which is why so many guys out of college can't continue… — Jonathan Horton Copy Share Image
It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have finished games where I have hardly touched the ball, yet reached the dressing room dead on my feet. You think… — Victor Valdes Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed high-school football, but I didn't really enjoy college football. I liked to play the games, but I didn't like… — Todd Helton Copy Share Image
Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful… — Nguyen Quyen Copy Share Image
I ended up winning a silver medal at the Summer X Games Adaptive Supercross seven months after my injury - on a… — Mike Schultz Copy Share Image
It takes patience to become the best runner you can be. Top athletes realize that running is a long-term sport. It is… — Anthony Famiglietti Copy Share Image
If you see cricket, the IPL is going on and then there is the World Cup. If cricketers can play two tournaments… — Anurag Thakur Copy Share Image
When I say my mission is to make polo bigger, I don't expect it to be baseball, but for sure to bring… — Nacho Figueras Copy Share Image
There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting. — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
This is football. This is my job. At the same time there's a good balance you can have with having fun and… — Devlin Hodges Copy Share Image
I was that little kid: I was the one that was looking up to athletes and getting to see them and getting… — Patrick Mahomes Copy Share Image
I watch a lot of sports. One of the reasons I watch is to see how these guys handle pressure, how they… — Jason Dufner Copy Share Image
It is difficult, but you need to be honest with yourself as an athlete, and have a team telling you the right… — Alexander Gustafsson Copy Share Image
It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No,… — Ernie Els Copy Share Image
I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping. — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
My mentality from the day I started playing sports was that you get up, you dust yourself off and you do it… — Joe Thomas Copy Share Image
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on… — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
In Massillon, you either hated football, or you loved it. On a Friday night in the fall, I don't know what anybody… — Lori Lightfoot Copy Share Image
It's so much fun! Girls just think that it is all about popularity, but it's not. You have to work really hard… — Stephanie Copy Share Image
The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport… — Kirsty Gallacher Copy Share Image
As I travel the country for away games, I meet kids fighting cancer in almost every city. They visit the ballpark, and… — Jon Lester Copy Share Image
Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin. — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot. — Uriah Hall Copy Share Image
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