When life throws you a curve ball just give up, no need messing around with that off speed shit

School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards — wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity — come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.

Enduring means accepting. Accepting things as they are and not as you would wish them to be, and then looking ahead, not behind.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

In Gym, the kids on my team learned not to pass me the ball and to step quickly in front of me if the other team tried to take advantage of my weakness. I happily...

To be a professional you have to act like one as well..

It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn’t need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.

He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.

What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, ‘I quickly accepted that there was nothing I could do about it,’ the statement is not only true but exhaustively descriptive of the...

Playing basketball, I blew out my knee like it was a birthday candle. Sports are so much more fun to play when sitting at a table and opening presents and eating cake.

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

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.

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...

What would be the natural thing? A man goes to college. He works as he wants to work, he plays as he wants to play, he exercises for the fun of the game, he makes...

Life is full of all sorts of setbacks and twists and turns and disappointments. The character of this team will be how well you will come back from this letdown, this defeat. You could still...

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

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.

When you’re a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it’s the same game played over and over again. There’s nothing unique or marvelous. It’s not an...

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.

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

Getting more exercise isn’t only good for your waistline. It’s a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood.

I’m like a kid in a candy store right now. I’m excited to be running, which is funny, because a lot of guys dread coming to preseason and sprinting around and working your butt off,...

A dominant team in sports is exciting, and it gives everybody something to shoot for. This year maybe there’s a chance somebody could do that [in MLS].

Skating is joy.

I read that Monica Seles got stabbed. And although I have nothing against Monica Seles, I’m glad somebody in sports got stabbed. I like the idea of it; it’s good entertainment. If we’re lucky, it’ll...

Pitchers, like poets, are born not made.

Why should we be discouraged? We haven’t been up to bat yet.

In sports, there are not a lot of times when you can walk away from the game on your own terms.

Will we ever see his like again? It is doubtful. But at least for a brief moment in time we were lucky to have him as one of our own: an English lionheart who was...

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it’s still being made all over the place, all the time.

At least watching dirty movies can be kind of fascinating if they aren’t too horribly strange. And even the horribly strange ones are still more interesting than televised sports.

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

There’s something about putting on a pair of skates, and getting out there and moving like nobody else can. Freedom is a word that comes to mind.

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

What is fascinating is that it is physical. You know, that’s one thing about intellectuals, they’ve proved that you can be absolute brilliant and have no idea what’s going on. But on the other hand,...

I’d only seen Julius play a few times, but he had that gift, that grace, those fingers like a goddamn medicine man. One time, when the tribal school traveled to Spokane to play this white...

I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they’d just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn’t translate through sports, or music, dancing,...

Everything you need is already inside.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

You know what, that’s one of the greatest feats in all of sports, … You know what, it’s not that easy. Especially with all of those rookies they’ve played.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.

I cross country ski on conveyer belts covered with shaved ice. People trying to check out at the grocery store need to show more respect for serious athletes.

The roof was torn off the gym. God’s way of telling the jocks that they’d better remember who’s really charge.

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man’s sins.

The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

So you see, we offer a lot more than just sports.

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...

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

Women cannot compete with men in physical prowess. And why in the name of all that is sane should we? Why not rather have our ambition go into sport for health, endurance, and the mere...