The thing about football – the important thing about football – is that it is not just about football.

When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as “rootless and stemless.” We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed. When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don’t condemn it as...

An “eye” on the vision is more important than an “I” on the vision.

The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Melbourne is just sports crazy. So they’re really excited about this.

Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don’t ever want to be again. Everything we do is part of who we are. How we choose to use those memories, to motivate or to submit is entirely up to us.

It’s too early to say whether we will bid, but we are interested in acquiring all sports content, including English Premier League.

I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God’s timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.

Cross Country is like poker. You have to be holding five good cards all the time.

I have no sense of humor about losing

Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.

These kinds of affinity programs, like credit cards with your favorite sports team, were popular for a while.

Persevere with a positive attitude – Michael Jordan

I’m so out of shape I take steroids just to watch sports.

Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a person courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels the will to endurance. It is not merely a physical development then. Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation of the whole person, and while perfecting the body as an instrument...

Ik heb altijd gevonden dat lichaamsbeweging niet alleen de sleutel is tot fysieke gezondheid, maar ook tot gemoedsrust. […] Lichaamsbeweging verdrijft spanning en spanning is de vijand van sereniteit.

nihil novum nihil varium nihil quod non semel spectasse sufficiat

Sports that haven’t been producing medals before are producing medals now.

If the price tag for sports is too high, our customers shouldn’t be forced to pay for it,

The reporter asked, “why did you play so hard.””Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who’d never seen my play before, and might never see me again”-Joe DiMaggio

There was no ‘I’ in team, but there was meat in team. And we were all dead meat.

That’s all that we talk about. Sports.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

You all know and lived the ‘secrets’ to De La Salle’s success-love, brotherhood, sacrifice, discipline, heart, courage, passion, honesty. These are not just ‘catch words’ we throw around to impress others or justify our existence. We know what these mean because we created it and lived it. Understand that with that knowledge there is no...

Victories are a byproduct of a larger vision. It begins with a question: How much do we owe one another?Each coach’s and player’s individual answer is one of the building blocks of The Streak. De La Salle separates itself from the competition because everyone from the head coach to the least accomplished player on the...

Owen Owens Field embodies the name of the team that calls it home. It’s Spartan to the core.

It’s considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.

Reading…is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources.

inherited by the world,interconnected by the youth;Mind,Body,Spirit.Believe in it

David Stern might be the smartest executive in the history of professional sports. His obsession with the Vagrant Kings is one of the strangest stories.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

For several years Quinn had been having the same conversations with this man, whose name he did not know. Once, when he had been in the luncheonette, they had talked about baseball, and now, each time Quinn came in, they continued to talk about it. In the winter, the talk was of trades, predictions, memories....

She’s a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

GrayG: I feel like I can tell you anything.IvyMac: You can. That’s what friends do.GrayG: I’ve never been friends with a girl before.IvyMac: I’m honored to be your first.

I haven’t celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.

I never expected to go into producing but I wanted to do sports broadcasting.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

It has always been our aim to increase the spread of medals. We have directed our funding towards sports where we felt we could improve our performances leading into Beijing (the 2008 Olympics). We are also encouraged by the way sailing and equestrian have bounced back after disappointing results in Athens.

If it were up to me maybe we?d have 35 sports, but we simply don?t have the finances to do it. In the foreseeable future I don?t see the finances to do it. No baseball for the foreseeable future.

I’m sorry he won’t talk to you. And I’m sorry that he keeps hurting you. I really am. I don’t know how to fix things between you two, but I think a place to start would be for you to stop pointing out how flawed he is and start looking for the good in him.

A friend tells a story about taking his ten-year-old son to a Jets game. The game was being played during a driving rain on a freezing cold day, and the Jets lost by twenty points to a team they were supposed to beat. As they headed toward the exits, the boy looked up, with tears...

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what’s inside someone until he’s tested.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

A tennis racket is a trampoline for a tennis ball. My favorite score is love-all, because that’s the right thing to do as a Christian and an Overpopulationist.

Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.

Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said “sure, every time”.