Drew Pomeranz Quotes

We share the USTA's vision to promote and expand the game of tennis. I have been playing the game since I was 6 years old with my dad and five brothers, so I know firsthand how it teaches life lessons: integrity, dedication, and competitiveness.

Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.

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.

NBA players are intense competitors, and it is truly humbling to know that my peers see me as someone who exhibits sportsmanship and respect on the court.

In football you should never take anything for granted.

There's a lot of talented guys, but there's not a lot of guys that play the game that right way.

My father was a big influence. He kept telling me to pursue football, always. He always encouraged me and my brother.

Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.

Coming to a team like the Spurs, you're automatically going to learn how to play the game the right way.

There's a lot said now about younger players: that it's just about the cars and houses. I'm from the old school - it's about what you've achieved in the game.

It's not just about winning or losing, but to learn about teamwork, learn about sportsmanship, learn about discipline. The value of working together for a common goal. Have the emphasis on fundamentals, not just games.

My idea about football is to play well, but even if you can't always play well, one thing I want is your character, your spirit. That is all I can ask of you.

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

There wasn't a favorite team or player in the Betts household. I played baseball, day in, day out, and learned the game my own way alongside my parents - Willie and Diana.

In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful.

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.