Marisa Miller Quotes

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

You face distractions, you face adversity in life and you have to be able to handle it, you have to be able to fight through it and become a better man and become a better player because of it.

I've played basketball all of my life, and I've had things happen on the court that you eventually have to move on from. It's part of some of the obstacles that you meet in trying to reach your pinnacle.

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.

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.

Every life lesson is on that baseball field.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

It goes without saying, winning against a good team in a hostile crowd on the road, it's just an absolutely huge win.

For me, basketball kind of mirrors life. It sounds deep, but the sport has transformed my personality and my daily coping mechanisms. It has meant a lot.

I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.