Red Smith Quotes

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

I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

Sports not only build better athletes but also better people.

The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.

No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

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

I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.

I like to play football, read some books, study.

The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

I'm convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.

If you want experiences to make you a better person, then you play two or three sports.

I grew up a huge jock, a lot of basketball and football. We had a pond in my back yard growing up, and we played a lot of hockey, too. I loved to score goals.

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.

I enjoyed every minute of being at school. I was doing my work but still playing football.

In football, you just have to develop yourself.

As a footballer, you just have to try to learn what you've done bad and what I could do good.

Being a lifelong athlete, I am a firm believer that I am who I am today because of sports. Not only did it give me structure and a solid foundation, but it gave me a sense of failure and how to overcome failure.

It's not always about getting better on the basketball court. This game teaches you how to become a better person as well. It pushes you into the team concept.

Football has taught me so much.