Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
I stare out the window and wait for spring.
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.
Anybody involved in sports in Missouri knows it's a great sports state. It is a great sports state, particularly in basketball and baseball. Particularly. Not to demean football, but it's a baseball state and a basketball state.
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
If you can't outplay them, outwork them.
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.
I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that's true for a lot of women-sports gives you a part of your life where you can work at something and you look in the mirror and you like that person.
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
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.
So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated.
Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.
Athletics is a great sport with many different events and athletes come in all shapes and sizes. I'm one of the smallest athletes on the track. They call me the 'pocket rocket'.
Great sport has intellectual beauty.
That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.
You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.
The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.
Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.
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