Sports Quotes

"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."

"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 went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out."

"Winners never quit and quitters never win."

"Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win."

"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."

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

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

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."

"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

"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."

"Golf is a good walk spoiled."

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is."

"You can't win unless you learn how to lose."

"I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match."

"A lifetime of training for just ten seconds."

"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."

"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."

"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok."

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."

"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."

"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."