Dave Winfield Quotes

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Kids in sports - it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.

I try and focus on the youth coming up, and I think tennis is a great sport regardless of how far you make it: just, obviously, a lot of good life lessons.

We're all about trying to teach the kids life through basketball.

Regardless of who you are, what sport you chose, or how much success you achieved, playing the game is all about getting you ready for life.

If I wasn't doing this, I'd be working in a chippy. Cricket can change your life. It can teach you a lot about discipline and life in general.

I tell people all the time that football taught me about life in every single aspect.

Football has done so much for me, given me friends, family, given me life lessons that now I can use in the operating room or just as a leader.

The greatest thing about sports, to me, is just the crossover into everyday life.

An important mentor for me, in terms of teaching me that there's a right way and a wrong way to do things, was probably my football coach. And playing football was one of the first times in my life that I realized nothing is given to you. You have to work really hard.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.

What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.

Basketball has given me so many opportunities, and it's something that's opened the world to me and allowed me to travel really all over the world.

My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.

In my junior year, I became one of the best defenders on my team, and as the years go by my confidence gets even higher, and that's because of my coach.

Playing all these different sports, you learn so much from the people you get coached by.

Football has taught me so much.

Sports is one of the keys to my life. It definitely kept me out of a lot of trouble and gave me a lot of discipline.