"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
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"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."
Bobby Unser"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson"You can't win unless you learn how to lose. -Kareem Abdul"
Jabbar"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is."
Bob Feller"Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win."
Gary Lineker"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts."
Dan Gable"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
Heywood Broun"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
Rogers Hornsby"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."
Barry Switzer"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."
Henry David Thoreau"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play."
Mike Singletary"Winners never quit and quitters never win."
Vince Lombardi"Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference."
Robert Griffin III"Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry."
Earl Monroe"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
Satchel Paige"The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen."
Bob Lemon"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
Billie Jean King"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."
Michael Phelps"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."
Babe Ruth"God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure."
Eric Liddell"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out."
Rodney Dangerfield"The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose."
Ernie Banks"If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out."
George Brett"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."
Knute Rockne"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."
Mike Tyson"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser."
Vince Lombardi"Fans don't boo nobodies."
Reggie Jackson"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."
Hank Aaron"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."
Earl Warren"Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty."
Harry Vardon"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game."
Michael Jordan"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."
Wayne Gretzky"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."
Jim Bouton"To find a man's true character, play golf with him."
P. G. Wodehouse"Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps."
Tiger Woods"Life is about timing."
Carl Lewis"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
Babe Ruth"Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top."
Paul Coffey"One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth."
Joe Garagiola"Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors."
Frank Gifford"It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square."
Pete Rose"Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story."
Casey Stengel"I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible."
Michael Phelps"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
George Orwell"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
William James"The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game."
Michael Jordan"I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators."
Gerald R. Ford"You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you."
Yogi Berra"Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up."
Red Auerbach"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."
Ernest Hemingway"Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball."
James Patrick Murray"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught."
Ambrose Bierce"You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em."
Chesty Puller"Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face."
Dave Barry"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."
George Bernard Shaw"I'll let the racket do the talking."
John McEnroe"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."
Herbert Hoover"I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match."
Mia Hamm"Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts."
Phil Jackson"Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing."
Warren Spahn"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."
Joe Adcock"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."
Bobby Knight"All sports for all people."
Pierre de Coubertin"Athletics are not my wheelhouse because sports were mean to this uncoordinated kid growing up, a 6-foot-2 14-year-old who never could do a layup."
Brad Garrett"One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it."
Hunter S. Thompson"Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day."
Peter Ueberroth"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."
Mark Twain"You cannot win if you cannot run."
Hank Stram"Tennis and golf are best played, not watched."
Roger Kahn"My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet."
Edwin Moses"When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again."
Hugo Black"Pitching is the art of instilling fear."
Sandy Koufax"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."
Muhammad Ali"You win some, lose some, and wreck some."
Dale Earnhardt"To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win."
Ian Botham"Nobody roots for Goliath."
Wilt Chamberlain"Where there is peace, there is sports; where there is sports, there is peace. Peace is what allows us, especially young people, to dream, go after one's goals and prepare you for the next challenge in life."
Kim Yuna"Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident."
Daniel Kahneman"When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino."
Dan Gilbert"Sports have an amazing way of banding people together from all walks of life, building relationships that would have never happened."
Kurt Warner"Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four."
Chris Rock"Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography."
Peter Guber"I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog."
Whitey Herzog"I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press."
Roger Kahn"The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register."
Bob Verdi"You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games."
Harry Caray"There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars."
Mario Lopez"At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training."
Zlatan Ibrahimovic"I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles."
Gilbert K. Chesterton"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game."
Walt Whitman"Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win."
Doug Collins"Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air."
Jack Benny"Baseball is a man maker."
Al Spalding"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law."
H. G. Wells"If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming."
Charles Barkley"I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play."
Joe E. Lewis"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."
Frank Gifford"Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity."
Billie Jean King"No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen."
Curtis Joseph"Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times."
Lucy Powell"Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart."
Steven Van Zandt"My source of income is sports betting. I have some investments also."
James Holzhauer"The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point."
Martina Navratilova"I can't say this enough - the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you're stronger, you think more quickly."
Michelle Obama"I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery. -Im Dong"
Hyun"It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism."
Eddie Vedder"That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish."
Louis Zamperini"My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life."
Teddy Sears"Vienna is a city where they love sports."
Eliud Kipchoge"I wanted to be a sports broadcaster like Stephen A. Smith."
Polo G"I wanted to use sports for social change."
Billie Jean King"When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!"
Indra Nooyi"Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers."
Mary Pilon"The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life."
Carl Lewis"In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'"
Carroll Shelby"Sports is the toy department of human life."
Howard Cosell"I don't like sports where it's like, you watch a guy on a motorcycle flip or something, then another guy does it, it looks exactly the same, and then at the end one guy gets higher points! It seems so arbitrary; I don't know who's ahead ever."
Norm MacDonald"I wasn't good in school. I didn't do sports. I sat in the bedroom and listened to records. Because the Beatles did whatever they wanted to, I took that as a kid and said, 'That's what rock is.'"
Chris Cornell"I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble."
Gabriel Iglesias"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself."
Ferdinand Porsche"I don't know if God is a sports fan or not, but I do know this: He loves a good comeback."
Lane Kiffin"People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes."
Ralph H. Baer"I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes."
Peggy Fleming"New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up."
Jimmy Connors"Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness."
William Wordsworth"In football, time and space are the same thing."
Graham Taylor"As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day."
Michael Jordan"I overcame size with mechanics."
Edwin Moses"He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is."
Nick Price"Sometimes in football you have to score goals."
Thierry Henry"All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity."
Gordie Howe"Golf is a good walk spoiled."
Mark Twain"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
Vince Lombardi"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive."
Arnold Palmer"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."
Ted Williams"Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world."
Babe Ruth"Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading."
Irene Rosenfeld"The Chicago Special Olympics prove a very fundamental fact, the fact that exceptional children - children with mental retardation - can be exceptional athletes, the fact that through sports they can realize their potential for growth."
Eunice Kennedy Shriver"My grandmother is a huge Hawkeyes fan, so I, by proxy, have to be one. I'm more of a professional sports fan, and I've never been a huge college fan, but because of my grandmother, I've gotten into a lot of really good Hawkeye games. So, because I'm a good grandson, I'm a Hawkeye fan."
Corey Taylor"Virtual reality is extremely exciting. We have the biggest opportunity in sports when you talk about the possibility of bringing fans inside a car going nearly 200 miles-per-hour."
Brian France"The first words Rebecca Lobo ever spoke to me when we met in a Manhattan bar in 2001 were, 'Aren't you the guy who just mocked women's basketball in 'Sports Illustrated'?' I blushed, broke out in a flop sweat and said, 'Yes.'"
Steve Rushin"I like a few vintage Rolexes, and Panerais are good. I'm not into sports watches - I like chronometers."
Jason Statham"Doctors, dentists and nurses commonly take out malpractice insurance to pay for lawsuits. The trend has expanded to include hairdressers, accountants, vets, sports umpires and members of the clergy, all fearful of being sued for wrongful action or advice."
Gavin Esler"As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear."
Jeffrey Kluger"I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun."
Kellan Lutz"Remember Circuit City? Bear Stearns? Lehman Brothers? Sports Authority? Once, all were billion-dollar companies - then gone in a moment. The fatal problem might be fraud or corruption, but more often, it's simply that management didn't see 'over the other side of the hill.'"
Steve Bannon"I got put into leadership roles very early in life from fifth grade, sixth grade. I always ended up being the quarterback or the leader of the sports teams, and it's kind of benefiting me now."
Tony Dungy"I'm not going to change and get the emotions out of my game. It's important to have emotions in sport. If you don't have emotions, it's like you don't really care. Because if you care about something, you're always going to be emotional. Doesn't matter if it's sports or personal life."
Alexander Zverev"Buying sports cars, going to expensive nightclubs, spraying people with champagne and things like that - what I learnt is that it wasn't for me, and, in fact, I feel pretty empty after doing that."
Daniel Ek"Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great."
Michael Schumacher"Youth sports helped shape me in a lot of different ways."
Jesse Palmer"Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the life of a footballer, and I guess that is true across most sports now. -Trent Alexander"
Arnold"I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports."
Richard M. Nixon"The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter."
Dave Barry"You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail."
Emma Stone"Sports is like a war without the killing."
Ted Turner"Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models."
Bill Bradley"I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also."
Anupam Kher"Sports is the common denominator in the world that brings everyone together. If there's any one place in the world where there is equality, it is probably sports. That was something that didn't always exist. We've come a long way in sports. Why can't society use sports as a way to bring people together and create change?"
Stephen M. Ross"I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen."
Abhishek Bachchan"Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses."
Stan Kroenke"You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing."
Greg LeMond"If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up."
Tommy Bolt"It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf."
Robert Wilson Lynd"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him."
Blaise Pascal"Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?"
Ben Hogan"He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play."
Gary McCord"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf."
Bob Hope"These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it."
Charles Barkley"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."
William Arthur Ward"If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball."
Jack Lemmon"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?"
Vince Lombardi"I had talked for years about doing a restaurant with Rocky Dudum, who's been my friend since I first came to San Francisco. Then Rocky's son, Jeff, said he wanted to design it, so he traveled around the country to sports restaurants like Mickey Mantle's and Michael Jordan's, and he came up with a great concept."
Willie McCovey"I come from a family of four brothers, so I like sports. -Jurnee Smollett"
Bell"You can easily get depressed. Usually, if you play sports, you think that one match or one game is very important, and when you lose it, you think your whole world is over."
Naomi Osaka"I was huge on basketball and baseball. I love sports. I'm an L.A. guy. I love the Lakers and Dodgers."
Collin Morikawa"I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball."
Lamorne Morris"I've won everywhere that I've been. I've never had a losing season in sports from the moment I was five-years-old. I'm not a loser."
Joe Burrow"Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to. -Kareem Abdul"
Jabbar"The success or failing in one competition doesn't define you, and that is one thing that any sports would teach you."
Sandeep Singh"I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy."
Mads Mikkelsen"Some receivers are like sports cars: they have a lot of speed and flair. Me, I'm like an old pickup truck. I just bounce around and try to get the job done."
Steve Largent"When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report - it's like reading about the new Lexus. You have to know what the guy writing the review cares about to understand his take. Does he like sports cars, or does he like Bentleys?"
Mike Nichols"If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played."
Daley Thompson"Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes."
Mark Wahlberg