The department has invested large amounts of resources in facilities, scholarships and coaches in our Olympic sports. The inability to host NCAA competition would have an unbelievably negative effect on our programs.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Train hard while others don’t, so you can win while your opponents wont.

Mistakes made me matchless.

Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit...

Play to win but never fear to lose. Win or lose-either way you are a winner.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan

That’s why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal texts, all the passed-down stories of bonehead plays and swirling brawls, the pitching duels that carried into...

I remember the day coach decided to bench me. We were walking in a botanical garden.

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.

That same shot in Portland doesn’t go in. This one does, and we win. That’s how funny this game is.

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]

This is a terrific addition to our portfolio of sports ventures. We’re thrilled Caesars Palace has joined with NBC Sports to showcase this increasingly popular event in Caesars’ new poker room.

The recruiter didn’t bother to introduce himself when Alumbaugh extended his hand. Instead, he turned to Aliotti and said: “He’s not six-foot-one.”Nice to meet you, too, Alumbaugh thought.

Ik heb altijd gevonden dat lichaamsbeweging niet alleen de sleutel is tot fysieke gezondheid, maar ook tot gemoedsrust. […] Lichaamsbeweging verdrijft spanning en spanning is de vijand van sereniteit.

It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that...

The sad fact of life: Winners love the game. Losers don’t.

I’m playing; I’m here. I’m going to fight until they tell me they don’t want me anymore.

The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Fitnes centri fitnes klubovi

just as a stool requires three legs to stand upright so the taekwondoist must cultivate basic skills, meaningful forms, and effective sparring in order to have both feet firmly planted in the art

I’m an extreme athlete. I’m into cuddling. I wonder if Red Bull would sponsor me.

I played hard for four quarters, and I took home a dollar. And with college being about pay to play, I earned my spot on the bench.

The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself–the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with...

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

Anyone who likes or hates Dana White should take a look at this.

Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.

One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star, or the bad luck of his...

The reporter asked, “why did you play so hard.””Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who’d never seen my play before, and might never see me again”-Joe DiMaggio

Persevere with a positive attitude – Michael Jordan

She’s a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

I wish we had a stronger spring sports program, so I could say we will overtake Tampa Prep, but I don’t know. It would take something happening that I am not expecting.

My favorite passage from the book: “Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don’t ever want to be again. Everything we...

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...