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

A man with new ideas is a madman, until his ideas triumph.

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.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

My limits know me well enough to stay out of my way.

…er det meget sterke krefter som søker å erstatte friluftsliv med mekanisert miljøødeleggende og konkurranseformet opphold i natur.

I don’t get it. Basketball is so supremely boring. I can’t understand the point of watching ten giants running from one end of the field–court–to the other throwing an orange ball through a hoop in...

Toward the end of Carmel’s life, the perception of super talls shifted dramatically, thanks largely to televised NBA games, By 1975, pretty much everyone had seen super tall people on TV, in the context of...

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Sports fans eat shit.

Life is a sports make it count.

[Utah center Greg Ostertag, who claimed he doesn’t even own a sports jacket, said he’s not just mad about the dress code. He plans to get even.] I don’t mind if they clean it up...

It’s said that sport is the civilised society’s substitute for war, and also that the games we play as children are designed to prepare us for the realities of adult life. Certainly it’s true that...

Ich hasste Sport. Ich hasste Sport, und ich hasste Sportler, und ich hasste Leute, die sich Sport ansahen, und ich hasste Leute, die Leute, die sich Sport ansahen, nicht hassten.

Lou Gehrig’s Farewell SpeechFans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have...

Let’s do some sports, Bruce is here.

Basketball Rule #4If you missenough of life’sfree throwsyou will payin the end.

all about that action boss

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

Molly stood up. You made an error! She felt like saying. A bad throw. So what? It’s a baseball game. A game. Who really cares? A bad throw? In the great scheme of things? A...

Run and become.Become and run.Run to succeed in the outer world.Become to proceed in the inner world.

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...

We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.

They come with the lines on it. You order it for the sports you want.

I’m the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.

Age does not count. It’s what you know about football that matters.

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

Love is a fur helmet in a new sport called Petting, where physical contact is the object of the game. Even when you lose, you win.

Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.

I’m not sure who invented dodgeball, but I can almost guarantee you that it wasn’t the shortest kid in the class.

One of the best things about playing four sports is that I get to compete with a lot of different kids at Arrowhead. If you just play basketball, you’re with the same guys all year...

Wisdom of the Ages “Assault and Battery” Weather forecast for the St. Louis Rams next Sunday in Seattle.

If it’s Carolina, it’s always been one of the powers, especially with Jordan and James Worthy coming from there and guys like that. It’s always been one of the big time schools.

We hear about Tiger Woods as a prodigy at three years old. For every Tiger Woods, there are thousands of kids who never want to touch a golf club again.

It’s because you absolutely love the sport.

I think it’s the only completely American sport that there is. Most of the team sports are a variation on the old medieval tournaments, but stock car racing is so American. It’s astounding to me...

Last night I missed two free throws which would have won the game against the best team in the state. The farm town high school I play for is nicknamed the “Indians,” and I’m probably...

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

You could ask any sports bookie and they’re going to tell you what the odds are,

It’s not about the games it’s about practice and when you practice, go hard!!

The atmosphere on the pitch and outside the pitch was not a sports atmosphere. In sport, you win and you lose, but it is very disappointing when you feel your life is not safe.

If you make lots of little changes to your lifestyle, you’ll need to make time to have some fun too, otherwise life can get a little boring.

This girl owns me, whether she realizes it or not. I’m a slave to her will.

Golf is a lawyer’s second best friend

I still have wagon splinters stuck to my ass, from when my high school coach made me ride the bench.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and...

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

Remember – it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.