Brotzman Sports Quotes

You do it because you like the creativity, and yet it's logical, like a science. You do it because it's your way of life. You do it because you love it and you can't not do it, because it's who you are."
My words clung to the steam around me, leaving whispering trails that echoed far beneath my skin, echoed deep in my bones. "At least, that's why I did it. ~ L.G. Kelso

People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles. ~ Wayne Gretzky

Victories are a byproduct of a larger vision. It begins with a question:

How much do we owe one another?

Each coach's and player's individual answer is one of the building blocks of The Streak. De La Salle separates itself from the competition because everyone from the head coach to the least accomplished player on the roster is willing to make the sacrifices necessary to be their absolute best. ~ Neil Hayes

I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia. ~ Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports. ~ Yanni

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested. ~ Tom Kite

I'll show you just how cruel a sport basketball is. ~ Atsushi

My mother passed away when I was 14, so there were certain things I missed in terms of upbringing. Maybe my mother would have said, 'You have to get a real job.' I don't know because I didn't have that experience. My fortes in school were Spanish, sports, reading and theater. That's what they encouraged. ~ Joie Lee

What I'm against is a sport that rewards mass for the sake of mass to the exclusion of all other physical properties of the physique. In other words, there comes a point where, if you keep adding muscle mass, the human body loses its beauty, shape and form. That's what I'm against. ~ Lee Labrada

I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience. ~ Shawn Levy

It's been six years since I have had a drink and I have two girls, and my priorities are a lot different now and I just can't believe I was that guy. And I would not go back, I would not trade the way I am now for anything. ~ Brett Favre

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute. ~ Eric Lindros

If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen. ~ Ryne Sandberg

This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great. ~ Amelie Mauresmo

I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too! ~ Nancy Kerrigan

He'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game, but also the way that he conducted himself on and off the court. ~ Lleyton Hewitt

Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain. ~ Steve Fossett

When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable. ~ Fred Couples

I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. ~ Conor McGregor

I don't want to sound condescending, so I'm not going to say anything else, except that it is literally impossible to imagine a thing dumber than sports. ~ Jesse Andrews

I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink. ~ Elizabeth Hurley

It is a responsibility to be who you are and not let this sport [racing] change you and not let the good runs and success or the bad runs change you. You've got to be the same person all the time. ~ Trevor Bayne

We all wake up at our leisure; the kids know not to wake me up. Then we make breakfast or go out to eat with family. There is usually a sporting event or two to watch! ~ Josie Bissett

Whether you want to be the best at your job, or at sports, just do your best. Give it everything you have. ~ Nick Newell

The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game. ~ Lord Byron

I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up. ~ A.S. Byatt

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common. ~ Lucy Walker

They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay. ~ Abe Lemons

The company I invested in is probably a leader in that area. They're a company called Second Spectrum, which happens to be based in LA but was started by two USC computer-science professors. It's filled with guys who love sports, who played sports, but really look like programmers. ~ Steve Ballmer

All field sports people are doing is turning an inevitable necessity into a pleasure. If the animal is going to be killed anyway, why not take pleasure in it? ~ Clarissa Dickson Wright

You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail. ~ Billy Mills

My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few places you can do it without being melodramatic. ~ Jeff Cardoni

The difference between being a winner and being a loser is how you pick yourself up again, especially when you're down for the third or fourth or twentieth time! ~ Susan Humphreys

I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport. ~ Callan McAuliffe

I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports - surfing, basketball, it doesn't matter what it is, if you play with people who are better than you, then you get better too. It is the same thing with acting. ~ Paul Walker

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports. ~ Joe Manganiello

I never understood how men could remember all those details about sports but, yet, were incapable of remembering where they set their car keys or wallet. ~ Tina Reber

I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery? ~ Michel De Montaigne

Sports movies had brainwashed me into the belief that when the chips are down the most, that is when success is the most inevitable. ~ Mindy Kaling

I'm not one of those women who's like pro women. I'm an individual, and I'm in an individual sport. So I see everyone as individuals, not as male or female. ~ Laila Ali

My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow ... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that. ~ Bill Parcells

I love sports cars and want a Mercedes of an MG. ~ Katie Price

The rush lifts him up, his endorphins are bubbling, and afterward he will remember thinking: "How can anyone possibly experience this without thinking he's a god? ~ Fredrik Backman

It's so weird to live in this world. What a bizarre tension to care deeply about the refugee crisis in Syria and also about Gilmore Girls. It is so disorienting to fret over aged-out foster kids while saving money for a beach vacation. Is it even okay to have fun when there is so much suffering in our communities and churches and world? What does it say about us when we love things like sports, food, travel, and fashion in a world plagued with hunger and human trafficking? ~ Jen Hatmaker

People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change. ~ Bill Bradley

It's not my style to either wear minimum clothes, to strip, or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I just want to do good work instead of sporting such meaningless tags. Sex sells, but to a small extent, not always. And this is what filmmakers have to accept. ~ Katrina Kaif

The goal of this book is do for you what Greg did for me: reframe 26.2 miles as accessible and inspire your first marathon journey, one mile at a time. ~ Gina Greenlee

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around. ~ Larry Robinson