If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
- Vince Lombardi
Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial,
hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi
There is no I in TEAM.
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Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net,
or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or
even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices,
your level of determination.
- Grace Lichtenstein American Writer & Editor
Men forget everything; women remember everything.
That's why men need instant replays in sports.
They've already forgotten what happened.
- Rita Rudner
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
- Vince Lombardi
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
Sports Do Not Build Character...They Reveal It
- John Wooden
All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means you're willing to go longer,
work harder, give more than anyone else.
- Vince Lombardi
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
- Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) US football coach
Anyone with an ailment or who wears glasses or anyone slightly different
suddenly wears a bull's eye. I think that dodgeball derailed an entire
generation of Americans. It's the true red menace.
- Art Jones Film director who directed Dodgeball, a mock-documentary criticizing the game.
I was told over and over again that I would never be successful,
that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work.
All I could do was shrug and say 'We'll just have to see'.
- Dick Fosbury won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Games
after he invented a revolutionary high-jump technique.
Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere;
and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are laughing; and little children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville- great Casey has struck out.
- Ernest Lawrence Thayer Casey at the Bat
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music,
no choreography and the dancers hit each other.
- Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my
unconditional confidence in their abilities.
- John Robinson
You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid.
You think something wonderful is going to happen.
- Joe DiMaggio, on Opening Day
Slump ? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin.
- Yogi Berra
We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.
- Ed Vargo, major league baseball umpire
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing,
then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.
It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing,
let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his jacket on.
- Lou Holtz, College football coach College football coach
Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical
- Yogi Berra
The sports page records people's accomplishments; The front page nothing but their failures.
- Jutice Earl Warren
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
- Joe Theismann
Football combines two of the worst things in American life.
It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
- George Will
All winning teams are goal-oriented.
Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them
concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on;
nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.
- Lou Holtz, former Notre Dame football coach
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
- Erma Bombeck
Most football teams are temperamental.That's 90% temper and 10% mental.
- Doug Plank
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA Center
If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing
to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
- Bud Wilkinson (1916-) US football coach
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work
a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince Lombardi
We won! We won! We won! Um, unfortunately,
I bet on the other team, so we won't be going for pizza.
- Chief Clancy Wiggum (The Simpsons)
All I want out of life, is that when I walk down the street folks will say,
"There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived."
- Ted Williams
A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.
- Humphrey Bogart
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
- Bryant Gumbel
Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming,
You gotta be ready to hit the curve.
- Jaja Q
If a man can beat you, walk him.
- Leroy (Satchel) Paige
Hitting is 50% above the shoulders.
- Ted Williams
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
- Pete Rose
This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.
- Dick Vertleib
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
- Dr. James Naismith, the father of basketball
Boards, Boards, Boards
- Knute Rockne
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