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.

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...