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.

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...

Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.

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,...

A lost is a lost no matter if you loose by 1 point or 40 points it’s still a lost.

As long as you leave everything out on the basketball court, you can go into the locker room and feel good about yourself and that’s important…………..

Rarely has a new player on the game captured so much attention so fast.

It’s not unusual. It’s part of sports. This happened to be the Super Bowl, so it has been magnified. But it is a very normal part of sports. Our officials are doing a great job....

Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.The human beauty we’re talking about...

In all four years of high school, not once did I make the football team. The other part of the story is that I never even tried out. Just raw talent, I guess.

When you’re as small as I am, people don’t expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low expectations, or you rise above them.

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

Sure, there is an undeniable pleasure in rooting for a winning team and in being able to look down on opposing fans with equal measures of superiority and disdain. But that’s also the Ruthian drawback...

It gets you in amazing shape. Out of all the sports I’ve played, this might be the best workout. After class, we can hardly move.

I’ve often told people that the greatness of this football program will emerge when The Streak ends. I hope you will all live up to that. It’s all numbers. It’s nothing. It’s not what we’re...

Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say “I will,” or “I will not,” and...

In sport the mind serves as the acolyte and apprentice of the body. Nothing interferes with the flow of the game more than the athlete who obsesses about his every move on the court. You...

Mit Sport erhöht man die Produktivität

We will not pay for an interview for Real Sports . Some former teammates and old-timers have been asked to do a lot of these and ask for payment. But we just don’t do it....

Now the playing field is getting leveled for all reporters. If you’re a sports reporter, you’re very likely to be covering legal, ethical, business, health issues – as often as your colleague covering the courts...

…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.