Following up on the Sports Movie Quotes how about favorite quotes by or about sports (not from a movie) Talk is cheap, let's go play - Johnny Unitas Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don’t accept it. - Pete Rose The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard. - Pete Rose When Pete Rose needed 100 more hits to break Ty Cobb's record they ask him how many more at bats he thought he needed to catch him his answer was "100 -- everytime I'm at the plate I expect to get a hit" Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines - Satchel Page The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender - Vince Lombardi We didn't lose the game; We just ran out of time - Vince Lombardi Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence - Vince Lombardi One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in - Wayne Gretzky I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been - Wayne Gretzky You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. - Yogi Berra
"Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things." - Paul Bear Bryant
"How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win." - Bum "Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told." - Bum ""Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded." - Yogi "I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?" - Yogi "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" -John Wooden "Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters." - John Wooden
From the Legendary Coach Wooden: "Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." "It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen." "Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful." and of course my favorite: "Failing to prepare is preparing to fail"
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" -Ali “Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!” -Tyson
