Sports Quotes

• "You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder....When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it."
  -- Emil Zatopek
• "We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play."
  -- 1992 - Pat Williams, Orlando Magic general manager, on his team's 7-27 record
• "Mind is everything: muscle--pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind."
  -- Paavo Nurmi
• "I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'"
  -- 1991 - Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player
• "Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer."
  -- Percy Cerutty
• "It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."
  -- Archie Griffen, two-time Heisman winner
• "The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us is the ultimate in living, and self-expression in athletics."
  -- Percy Cerutty
• "If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record."
  -- Unknown
• "I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark."
  -- Muhammad Ali
• "There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend."
  -- Charles Barkley, about playing against Michael Jordan, 1993.
• "What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems."
  -- Duke Snider
• "We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon."
  -- Emil Zatopek
• "Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like muscles of the body."
  -- Lynn Jennings
• "It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am."
  -- Muhammad Ali
• "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less."
  -- Paul Brown
• "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been."
  -- Wayne Gretzky
• "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
  -- Wayne Gretzky
• "It's not bragging if you can back it up."
  -- Muhammad Ali