Sports Coaches Quotes

Every name looks fashionable when it's etched in silver. (Stanley Cup) ~ Bruce Boudreau

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams. ~ Hamish Bowles

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself. ~ Eric Dickerson

I think in most sports sometimes you need a little luck for the ball or calls to roll your way. ~ Kim Smith

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture. ~ Dwayne Johnson

On TV, talking heads wrung their hands over a lack of traditional feminine values and wondered if girls' sports were to blame. Then they cut to a commercial featuring a sexy college coed vacuuming her dorm room in her underwear. ~ Libba Bray

It's only a game. It only resolves tiny, insignificant things. Such as who gets validation. Who gets listened to. It allocates power and draws boundaries and turns some people into stars and others into spectators. That's all. ~ Fredrik Backman

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything. ~ Ilie Nastase

Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing. ~ Criss Jami

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it. ~ Dan Quayle

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno? ~ Pete Rose

Parents may be always working, parents may be in and out. When you're dropping them off with coaches, the first thing kids should be coming back and saying is, 'Mom, guess what I learned today? Guess what coach taught me today?' ~ Ray Lewis

I wasn't feeling well in the first half. I felt down, man. I had three slices of pizza before the game and the food took me down. ~ Leroy Loggins

Coming where I'm coming from, really, my family name isn't a pressure because, you know, music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up. Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music. ~ Damian Marley

In life, be a participant, not a spectator. ~ Lou Holtz

If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line. ~ Derek Jeter

I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field. ~ Dan O'Brien

I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault. ~ Viggo Mortensen

As a child, I could beat most kids in sprints, but overall, wrestling was the most natural sport for me. In fact, I was a pretty good high school wrestler. I was unusually quick and strong. ~ Henry Paulson

Sometimes I thought about my future, because Lynn said I should. She said it was hard to tell at this point, but someday, if I didn't go to Africa to study animals, I might be a beautiful genius tennis player. I didn't worry about it one way or another. I didn't care if I was a genius or if I was pretty or if I was good in sports. I just liked to listen to Lynn and to talk to Bera-Bera and to eat rice candies. The lady who used to live down the street could take all of her top teeth out of her mouth. She wasn't allowed to eat chewy candy. I could eat any kind of candy I wanted because I still had my baby teeth. If they rotted, I would simply grow more teeth. That was pretty great. ~ Cynthia Kadohata

My favorite sport is baseball; my cousin is pitcher Heath Bell. ~ Drake Bell

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like. ~ Casey Stengel

Scott Medlock is the 'Top Gun' of sports artists. He truly is the best of the best. ~ Jim Hill

Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls. ~ Dominique Moceanu

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers. ~ Rick Astley

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it. ~ Mary Lou Retton

Youth need coaches, not critics. ~ Amit Kalantri

I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean. ~ Karolina Kurkova

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society. ~ Jerry Reinsdorf

Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight. ~ Bernhard Langer

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will . ~ John Wooden

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. ~ Jack Lemmon

Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention ... Maybe it's because in a country that prides itself on being egalitarian, sport is intellectually and socio-economically an equal playing field. In fact, the more humble your background, the better, the underdog-turned champion is a narrative that resonates powerfully. We're far less interested in the stories of our best doctors, writers, lawyers, engineers, teachers or social workers. Their triumphs do not capture our collective imaginations. ~ Mia Freedman

Shin-shin-toitsu-do includes a wide variety of stretching exercises, breathing methods, forms of seated meditation and moving meditation, massage-like healing arts, techniques of auto-suggestion, and mind and body coordination drills, as well as principles for the unification of
mind and body.

These principles of mind and body coordination are regarded as universal laws that express the workings of nature on human life. As such, they can be applied directly to an endless number of everyday activities and tasks. It is not uncommon when studying Japanese yoga to encounter classes and seminars that deal with the direct application of these universal principles to office work, sales, management, sports, art, music, public speaking, and a host of other topics.

How to use these precepts of mind and body integration to realize our full potential in any action is the goal. All drills, exercises, and practices of Shin-shin-toitsu-do are based on the same principles, thus linking intelligently a diversity of arts. But more than this, they serve as vehicles for grasping and cultivating the principles of mind and body coordination. And it is these principles that can be put to use directly, unobtrusively, and immediately in our daily lives. ~ H.E. Davey

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23! ~ Kevin Keegan

Badminton is not a popular sport in India. ~ Saina Nehwal

As a journalist, I can also now understand his (Patrick O'Brian's)idea that the Q&A is not particularly civilized - let alone a sports media press scrum. The formats don't necessarily further understanding between two people. It is not always true conversation - a discussion that unearths nuggets of insight. It too often seems like interviewers are running through a pre-fab checklist, looking for a Tweetable quote, trolling for a gaffe, or ticking off pre-conceived points like those on a medical checklist at the doctor's office. It can feel invasive, like a trip to the proctologist - in front of an audience. ~ Knute Berger

Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster ... The repercussions may be extreme ... and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood. ~ John Money

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain. ~ Ben Hecht

Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically. ~ John Howard