Andrew Luck Quotes

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

Regardless of who you are, what sport you chose, or how much success you achieved, playing the game is all about getting you ready for life.

I tell people all the time that football taught me about life in every single aspect.

Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.

I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

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.

Every coach wants to win, but it's not easy to do that.

My work ethic is from sports.

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.

My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.

Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.

You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.

I have always maintained that if you work hard, it won't go waste, as recognition will come to you at some stage, whether in studies or sports. You need to have good intentions and intent to move ahead in life as well as in sports.