Cathy Engelbert Quotes

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

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

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.

Football is not just what you do on the field.

Golf instills incredible values, including collaboration, competitiveness, and integrity.

When you go out on to that field it's going to be war. Sportsmanship is playing to the best of your abilities and then, afterwards, shaking your opponent's hand.

My dad was a really big baseball guy who helped coach me and thought the game should be played the right way.

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.

I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.

Every life lesson is on that baseball field.

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

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.

Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.

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.

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.

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

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.

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

Softball has given me so much in life. It's taught me the kind of person I want to be, and given me a sweet sisterhood. It even led me to my husband.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.