"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."
- Anonymous

 

 

 

 

 

 

"No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room."
- Muhammad Ali (Boxing)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."
- William A. Ward (American dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
- Michael Jordan (Basket Ball)

"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."
- Chief Justice Earl Warren (Chief Justice of the United States (1953-1969)

"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose."
- Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of UK from 1940-45 and 1950-55)

"If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record."
- Jan McKeithen (American Football (NFL) Coach)

"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok."
- Shaquille O'Neal (Basket Ball)

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
- Plato (Philosopher, 428-347 BC)

"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 (Baseball)

"My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back."
- Anonymous

"I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love."
- Tiger Woods (Golf)

"There are two kinds of people - those who run and those who should!"
- Anonymous

"Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake."
- Sylvester Stallone (American Actor)

"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that."
- Bill Shankly (Football)

"It'd be great to have an opportunity to go to the moon when I retire. It would be a real experience. A lot of players go into coaching - but I've already decided it is not for me."
- David Beckham (Football)