Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe DiMaggio

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

Joe DiMaggio

I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down.

Joe DiMaggio

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

John Greenleaf Whittier

One brave deed makes no hero.

John Green

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

Pat Summitt

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

Pat Summitt

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

Pat Summitt

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

Pat Summitt

A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.

Pat Summitt

Winners are not born, they are self-made.

Pat Summitt

I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.

Pat Summitt

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

Pat Summitt

Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.

Pat Summitt

Success is a project that's always under construction.

Pat Summitt

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

P. J. O'Rourke

Fishing is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

Marshall Faulk

Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports.

Mark Messier

It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.

Mark Messier

I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams.

Mark Messier

I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

Mark Messier

I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.

Mark Messier

If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.

Mark Messier

Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.

Mark Messier

Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.

Mark McGwire

Babe Ruth, what can you say? You are almost speechless when people put your name alongside his name. I wish I can go back in time in meet him. Obviously, he was probably the most important sports figure in the world at that time. Hopefully, someday when I pass away, I get to meet him, and then I can really find out what he was really like.

Mark McGwire

I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.

Mark McGwire

This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.

Mark McGwire

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

Mark McGwire

I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.

Mark McGwire

I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it.

Mark McGwire

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

Mark Emmert

To convert college sports into professional sports would be tantamount to converting it into minor league sports. And we know that in the U.S., minor league sports aren’t very successful either for fan support or for the fan experience.

Marilyn Monroe

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.