Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward...
I wanted to make a film that wouldn't just appeal to Formula One fans. That's what the great sports documentaries do - 'Hoop Dreams,' 'When We Were Kings' - they're human dramas first, sport second, i...
My heroes, I couldn't imagine them practicing. Like Bob Dylan, you know? Bob Dylan's a very, very good guitar player, but it's like he's trying to hide it. I always loved this attitude. When you're ve...
Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.
player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually.
I want you all to line up in alphabetical order according to your size.
Train hard while others don't, so you can win while your opponents wont.
No man who really is a man ever cared for the easy task. There is no enjoyment in the game that is easily won. It is that in which you have to strain every muscle and sinew to achieve victory that pro...
When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and over again. There's nothing unique or marvelous. It's not...
You don't just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again.
Play to win but never fear to lose. Win or lose-either way you are a winner.
When everything seems worse, impossible to achieve, thinking about giving up, quitting? Remember why started first? Trust yourself, tap yourself and say if you cannot make it, no one is going to. Look...
I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on d...
It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
I was certain I was going to do something in sports.
I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.
I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports rea...
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.