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.

Nobody will outwork, out-train or out-will me !

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

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

I like wooden shoes—John Wooden. They are better for playing basketball. Nail them to the hardwood floor for increased shooting efficiency.

My baseball team is called the I Ams. Just me and my clones on the roster. We’re devastating. Well, at least I am.

You can look in every direction and find a competition or an event going on. Even if you’re not involved in playing one of the sports being offered, you can find anything you want to...

The idea here is simple, if you can dream it, it is possible.

If you just play really hard, he says, nothing else matters.

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

Understatement has become part of the tradition. A proposal to build a history room to house the football team’s memorabilia was immediately shelved when many former players complained. What makes this program so special is...

We think cross-selling is important, but we’re not obsessing about whether one of those products is sports betting.

Philippine culture was clearly different. It wasn’t the fan’s duty to remain aloof in the presence of stars; it was the player’s responsibility to show gratitude to the average Filipino.

The covenant stops you from building sports facilities, which I said is not very helpful,

He(Rahul Dravid) is the intelligent man’s guide to what a sportsman ought to be – modest, dependable, well-educated, with the gift of grace under pressure and a perspective that is adult. He is the comfort...

Deep down, it’s all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.

ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.

He was working that charm right now on the trainer who kneeled before him and touched his thigh as though it were the thigh of David, Michelangelo’s glorious statue come to life right here on...

I don’t let birdies and pars get in the way of having a good time

The strong one doesn’t win, the one that wins is strong.

[Biffle] was really excited following him [and] that sounds kind of funny, … Don’t get me wrong, I was going to pass him if I could, but I was real excited following him … thinking...

Yo, I’m in position. Ready when you is.”Gareth cringed while crossing the wide concourse, checking both directions. The giant hallway was the main drag of a ghost town, its only residents a solitary custodian sweeping...

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

Some seek the comfort of their therapist’s office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

On the road we’re somebody else’s guests and we play in a way that they’renot going to forget we visited them.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

You don’t just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again.

Early on I quickly realized I’d never be the fastest or the strongest, but not once have I entertained the notion I couldn’t be one of the toughest.

Things that aren’t important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don’t have to be a rule.

Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.

He who thinks he’s the best is not the best… And the one who thinks “he who thinks he’s the best is not the best” is also not the best.

Most people race to see who is the fastest, I race to see who has the most guts.

Practice hard,Train hard,work hard and Play harder.

New Rule: Don’t name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means...

One group of riders doped, the others alongside them racing clean. You can work out for yourselves which group was fastest.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

Of all sports, wrestling is the most like cuddling. I’m all sweaty because I’m training hard to show her how much I love her.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we’ll load up the bar and put...

He was known to hit low, drive upward from the hips, and flip other boys over his shoulder and onto their backs, knocking the wind out of them on the glass-littered asphalt, sometimes causing a...

It’s a funny feeling. I’ve known for a few years that as long as I stayed upright and played 10 events a year, I would qualify.

[The waiting-list sports have been lobbying for their cause, and rugby appears to have created the strongest buzz, with golf running second.] There’s a lot of talk about rugby sevens being the first one in,...

Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.

I try to get them in the best shape they can be. It can be for sports or recreational sports or life.

We made a successful, last-minute effort to get the French Open many years ago, when the USA network bailed on it. I remember, four of us jumped on a plane on the spur of the...

Training energy system to effectively resynthesize ATP – as quickly as possible – so that muscle contraction continues without onset of fatigue – forms the basis of most exercise protocols.

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.