I’ve been let in on a dirty little secret: winning changes nothing. Now that I’ve won a slam, I know something that very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn’t feel...

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that’s designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I...

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leopards...

I’m frozen in place as his eyes rake over me.

I didn’t cry when they buried my father – I wouldn’t let myself. I didn’t cry when they buried my sister. On Thursday night, with my family asleep upstairs, my eyes filled as Agassi and...

Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.

And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn’t forever. The high eventually melts away and the journey of...

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

I haven’t celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.

Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.

De La Salle hung on for the 28-21 victory. Afterward, Ladouceur stood before his exhausted team. It was by far the biggest victory in school history at the time, but the coach noticed that several...

There’s something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you’re playing team sports, people think you’re okay.

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

All sports for all people.

You’ve got a lot of new platforms that are clamoring for high-end sports content.

When you come back from a set down and bring the match to a final set tiebreak and are a point away from winning the match, only to have what looks like an extremely fit...

Im for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what cant be done.

People usually live up to their expectations. The kid picked first for dodgeball feels a duty to be the best, and to perform the best, and to be better than anyone else. They feel a...

Obviously all of our sports want to get outside as soon as possible. We’re hoping for some good weather soon.

Guys care about sports teams. I’m not talking about simply rooting; I’m talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding...

Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our...

I don’t understand the game of Cricket. But I do get the game of Noisy Night Insect.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

It’s you and me, and all you have to do is breathe. I’m going to take care of everything else.

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

I may lose but i’ll never quit

Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the...

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

wouldn’t you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?’As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs...

Something that you love so much you would be willing to die for it.

New Rule: Americans must realize what makes NFL football so great: socialism. That’s right, the NFL takes money from the rich teams and gives it to the poorer one…just like President Obama wants to do...

If you’re not at the front, you’re not in the race.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.

My cat’s favorite sport is economics, and his favorite player is Ben Bernanke. But it’s just too violent for me to enjoy.

this isn’t real” attitude at the ticket counter – when transformers are defending earth against aliens and 21st century vampires frolic by daylight – on the big screen of your heart and mind train for,...

A baseball club for girls?

These are hard times. Our deficit is $120,000. If we cut out sports, we’ll still have an $80,000 deficit. It’s a start but it’s not enough.

I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.

Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.

It’s considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

i could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write ‘sports sports sports sports sports’ for three pages

I sometimes rented a car and drove from event to event in Europe; a road trip was a great escape from the day-to-day anxieties of playing, and it kept me from getting too lost in...

Its me own battle… and I’m seeing me body take on me mind…. BIG TIME!

You know how when you step on court your coach is like “go go go!”? And all throughout you just keep telling yourself to hit harder and harder and keep at it? You know how...

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Nobody will outwork, out-train or out-will me !

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.