The atmosphere on the pitch and outside the pitch was not a sports atmosphere. In sport, you win and you lose, but it is very disappointing when you feel your life is not safe.

If you make lots of little changes to your lifestyle, you’ll need to make time to have some fun too, otherwise life can get a little boring.

This girl owns me, whether she realizes it or not. I’m a slave to her will.

Golf is a lawyer’s second best friend

I still have wagon splinters stuck to my ass, from when my high school coach made me ride the bench.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and...

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said “sure, every time”.

Remember – it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.

Victories are a byproduct of a larger vision. It begins with a question: How much do we owe one another?Each coach’s and player’s individual answer is one of the building blocks of The Streak. De...

One hit, one moan of fractured air, one solid impact and the man went down.

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

Football is the poetry of a motion.

inherited by the world,interconnected by the youth;Mind,Body,Spirit.Believe in it

‘Why are you yelling at the television when you know they cannot hear you?’ ‘You wouldn’t understand,’ said Asher, his gaze locked on the screen. ‘It’s a human thing.’

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Részvétet éreztem az ismeretlen sportember iránt, és egyúttal kárörömet is. Úgy kell neki, miért sportember, de ha már sportember, mit keres minálunk. Valószínűleg ő is így érzett volna irányomban, ha a golfpályán látott volna meg...

I’ve been coaching Aynsley in all sports for years and she’s always been a clutch performer. She’s unorthodox in her form sometimes, but she always gets the job done.

I’d never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I’d had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around lying on your couch in a neurotic stupor all day,...

I’ll watch the Final Four when there are three teams playing at once for two titles and one large bag of regrets. That bag is mostly full of air, like a bag of potato chips,...

Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering pennant with a blue and red circular design in the center and the words GO...

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

A great piece of work

Plane Ride – In our sport it is natural and necessary to set up goals to inspire us. We all want to achieve the next level, the break-thru performance. What we (all of us) must...

We spend so much recognition on sports, but the Post-Herald stepped up and did an admirable job of bringing attention to the academic side of our schools,

The sports pages are men’s pages, although they are not presented as such. /…/ On foreign fields, the men win their trophies, or lose their honour, doing battle on the nation’s behalf. The readers, mainly...

We spend 8 hours a day, for 10 months a year, for nearly 17 years sending our kids to school to prepare them for life. In all of that time there is never a course...

On the surface, there is something peculiar about turning a portion of one’s happiness over to a collection of ballplayers, and perhaps more peculiar still is concerning oneself about ball games played decades before one’s...

if you gone come in second, you’re just the first loser!

Thankfully, Coach had taught me a way of embracing the pain. He called that overwhelming rust of hurt ‘The Moment of No Return’, a point of pure agony when the body told an athlete to...

The thing about football – the important thing about football – is that it is not just about football.

Swimming is simply moving meditation.

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don’t you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team’s ten goals better off.

I like cup holders—in cars, as well as in jockstraps. I would have played football, but the only helmet I had belonged to a bicycle that coach said was illegal on the field.

If running a marathon excites you, create space in your life for it. Adding a new commitment means recalibrating different areas of your world. Logging more miles as your race date approaches means less time...

Ever bike? Now that’s something that makes life worth living!…Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading...

As I run I tell myself to think of a river. And clouds. But essentially I’m not thinking of a thing. All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my...

If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. All that has...

Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to...

I’ve got a Don Baylor,” J.T. said.”California sucks this year.”Ralph snickered. “I wouldn’t use a Baylor card to scrape dog shit off the street.

Emotionally, I was just a mess. But it’s such a long recovery period that you have to come to terms with it. You can’t cry the whole time until you get back on the field.

I’m not doing it for media attention, not doing it for sponsors, not for money.

love of sport.

One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You...

Being strong is not how hard you hit but its as hard you can get hit and keep going that is how winning is done.

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game’s greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game,...

Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.

Sleepwalking is the perfect exorcise for lazy people