Manfred von Richthofen Quotes

Athletics is in my blood.

You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.

The spectacular catches are the ones that you remember detail for detail. The ones with two hands, it's kind of routine.

It's hard for me to congratulate somebody after you just lose to them. I'm a winner. It's not being a poor sport or anything like that. If somebody beats you up, you're not going to congratulate them. That doesn't make sense to me. I'm a competitor.

Play him, fine him, and play him again.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?

You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.

I love it when receivers catch the balls with their hands.

No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.

My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there is going to be such an award a player on the losing team who lets in the losing goal shouldn't get it.

I consider myself to be respectful, and I believe this is a main value for sports.

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.

Sport for me is about inspiring kids. Here's the rules, here's the play area, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is all about teaching kids how to approach life. If we're not playing sport to benefit kids, I'm not really sure why we play sport.

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.

The best part is if you dunk on someone at home and they show it on the replay!

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper so that he is at no time independent of one technique or another. In sport the citizen of the technical society finds the same spirit, criteria, morality, actions and objectives in short, all the technical laws and customs which he encounters in office or factory.

Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.

I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.