Sports - Quotes
- "You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder....When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it."
-- Emil Zatopek
- "We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play."
-- 1992 - Pat Williams, Orlando Magic general manager, on his team's 7-27 record
- "Mind is everything: muscle--pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind."
-- Paavo Nurmi
- "I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'"
-- 1991 - Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player
- "Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer."
-- Percy Cerutty
- "It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."
--
Archie Griffen, two-time Heisman winner
- "The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us is the ultimate in living, and self-expression in athletics."
-- Percy Cerutty
- "If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record."
-- Unknown
- "I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark."
-- Muhammad Ali
- "There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend."
-- Charles Barkley, about playing against Michael Jordan, 1993.
- "What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems."
-- Duke Snider
- "We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon."
-- Emil Zatopek
- "Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like muscles of the body."
-- Lynn Jennings
- "It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am."
-- Muhammad Ali
- "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less."
-- Paul Brown
- "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been."
-- Wayne Gretzky
- "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
-- Wayne Gretzky
- "It's not bragging if you can back it up."
-- Muhammad Ali
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