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.

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

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

Why do you like show jumping?””… Beauty and excitement. The elements of trust, talent, training, love, and danger make show jumping a thrilling and aesthetic experience. It’s really the ultimate test of two nervous systems–the...

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then to pick it up.

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Sports bars are also a great place for guys to meet other guys–either for sex or for wrestling, whichever feels more right.

The problem with winter sports is that — follow me closely here — they generally take place in winter.

The wheel is man’s greatest invention, and as such, unicycling is the world’s purest sport.

Racing is an escape from society. From symbols of status, and self-perception. A chance to just be. For everyone to just be, with each other.

If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes up on the short end.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

The score never interested me, only the game.

That’s such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship....

There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of their brawl all beat up and battered, obviously both fighters gave...

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

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.

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

The guys who play it [soccer] are kinda dumb. Why don’t they just kick the crap out of the guy in front of the net? Then they could score all they want.

He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then...

It has become more accepted by the general public. Movie stars, sports professionals are showing their tattoos. It’s more mainstream.

Athletes are born winners, there not born loosers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become sucessful in life.

How you harangue referees. How you fall over when you’ve not been touched. How you make a meal out of every tackle to try and get the other player booked. How you protest when you...

real world”. Refuse normalcy. Beauty is everywhere, love is endless, and joy bleeds from our everyday existence. Embrace it. I love all of you, all my friends, family, and community. I am ceaselessly grateful from...

As your training integrates Mind, Body and Spirit, enjoy the process. Your journey to the marathon finish will last a few hours. Your journey to the start will influence a lifetime.

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.

Girls and sports. That was the interest, mainly. I never wanted to be a puppeteer.

The U.S. is one of the best supporters of these sports. We get all the opportunities to train at a high level. Combine a daredevil mentality with the best training and best coaches and you...

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,...

While sports are indisputably a positive source of strength and self-development for girls, they can accomplish this only if the environment in which female athletes throw their javelins, kick their soccer balls, and swim their...

We’re screwed.

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

If teams keep playing us this way, it’s going to be like this

football is like life – it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Where is it written in the Constitution that because a guy played football, he has the automatic right to sit in that booth? How hard is football? If I’ve spent thirty-five years as a sportswriter,...

Walking to the net, I’m certain that I’ve lost to the better man, the Everest of the next generation. I pity the young players who will have to contend with him. I feel for the...

Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.

Chicago’s always been a great sports town,

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

He’s letting me see the real him, something he doesn’t allow a lot of people to see.

If I owned Sports Illustrated, you’ve got 33 drivers in the Indianapolis 500, and one’s female and hot, why wouldn’t you put her on the front page? You’d be stupid not to.

In a depression, attendance to sporting events goes down, while the percentage of people fornicating goes up, because sex is free. I know, some of you are probably thinking, Free! Where do I find those...

I love the smell of the ice… And the cold. The sound the puck makes when it’s sliding across the ice or when hits the net for a goal… as long as it’s our goal....

I spent 29 years at ABC Sports. Ed Rendell has spent the last three years as governor, and he wants to be a broadcaster. Let’s give Ed Rendell what he wants.

It’s Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine,...

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.

The process begins during the off-season program, when players spend countless hours together and become heavily invested in the season before it even starts. It continues during these weekly meetings, when players stand and deliver...