If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out. Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. Someone threw a petrol bomb at Alex Higgins once and he drank it!. Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse. Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss. Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris. Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that. I failed to make the chess team because of my height. Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious. Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. Tyson's the only guy I know who could drive a Rolls-Royce and say: 'See those license plates? I made 'em myself.' It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon playing golf. The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down. Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country. If at first you don't succeed.. So much for skydiving. If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night. If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. They called it golf because all the other four letter words were taken. In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete. I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won. Michael Chang has all the fire and passion of a public service announcement, so much so that he makes Pete Sampras appear fascinating. One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him. Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint. When Peter Beardsley appears on television, daleks hide behind the sofa. The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important. We've lost seven of our last eight matches. The only team that we have beaten is Western Samoa. It's a good job we didn't play the whole of Samoa. Winning isn't everything: It's the only thing. Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first. I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes. I play football. I'm not trying to be a professor. The tests don't seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven't been through in school. I've won [champinships] at every level, except college and pro. 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. My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt. I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating. 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.' When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important. The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. There's no substitute for guts. I really lack the words to compliment myself today. It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates. In war there is no substitute for victory. Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it. When you're playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that. The game isn't over till it's over. It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. I'll always be Number 1 to myself. Football features two of the worst aspects of American life, violence and committee meetings You guys line up alphabetically by height. Watch the time -it gives you an indication of how fast they are running. I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona. 'And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself. It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone. Every car has a lot of speed in it. The trick is getting the speed out of it. One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good. It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get. When he sits down, his ears pop [Shawn Bradley] Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death. I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father. I don't know what it is, but I can't look at Hulk Hogan and believe that he's the end result of millions and millions of years of evolution. When Mike Tyson gets mad, you don't need a referee, you need a priest. Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. It took me five years to spell Chattanooga - and then we moved to Albuquerque. ...The ball was in!......... Winning isn't everything. It's the money you make doing it that's everything. If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. Real pressure in golf is playing for $10 when you've only got $5 in your pocket. We're totally committed to defense. I'm not sure our defense is committed to defense, but the rest of our team is. We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers. The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to. [When asked whether he had visited the Parthenon during his trip to Greece] We are very proud of him. He's our first offensive linesman to ever become president. [Gerald Ford] 100% of the shots you don't take don't go in. Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was shut up. I ain't doing nothin' and I don't do it before noon. It isn’t hard to be good from time to time. What’s tough is being good every day. Anyone raised in Texas can attest to the fact that football in the Lone Star State is a deeply religious experience. We’re not giving away any football players who could hurt us later. I don’t mind people thinking I’m stupid, but I don’t want to give them any proof. We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.