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12 Matches Found.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th President of the United States
In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.
- Arthur Dobrin (1943-) American Ethicist and Writer
A good sweat, with the blood pounding through my body, makes me feel alive, rivitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others.
- Washington Redskins coach Norv Turner, whose team became only the second in NFL history to win six games after losing the first seven games of the year. December 19, 1998
If you just keep playing, keep believing and have some faith, something good can happen.
- General Douglas MacArthur, on the virtues of competitive athletics.
It teaches the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face
themselves when they are afraid. To be proud and unbowed in defeat yet
humble and gentle in victory. And to master ourselves before we attempt to
master others. And to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep. And to
give the predominance of courage over timidity.
- Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) American Football Coach
Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence and to victory, even though we know complete victory cannot be obtained, it must be pursued with all one’s might. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American Statesman and Scientist
Players must remember that the best victory was not over the opponent but over oneself. (Benjamin Franklin's comments on the game of Chess)
- John F. Kennedy
The sad fact is that it looks more and more as if our national sport is not playing at all - but watching. We have become more and more, not a nation of athletes, but a nation of spectators...
- Apolo Anton Ohno
My quest - my journey - is not about winning four golds. Its about coming to the Olympics and experiencing the Olympics and skating the best I can."
- Michelle Kwan
She is her for the experience of trying, and, in the end, as cheesy as she jokes that it sounds, that is going to have to be enough. ...I wish I could say winning so many medals would complete me as a person and (make me) the happiest person on earth. But how come the richest people aren't the happiest people?...
How can I justify training for four years just for six minutes on the ice? There's got to be more things that I enjoy out of skating, for me, it is definitely the process of getting there.
- Michael Kovalchik, Director of Athletics, Hillsdale College
Intercollegiate athletics strive to instill specific moral qualities that are meant to be lifelong attributes: sportsmanship, leadership, optimism, self-discipline, loyalty, dedication, commitment, effort, sacrifice, and honor.
- Michael Kovalchik, Director of Athletics, Hillsdale College
Winning is important. But it is not as important as striving to win. And victory as an end does not justify the means.
- Henry Fielding (1707-1754) British Playwright and Novelist
Philospophy and religion may be called the exercise of the mind, and when this is disordered they are as wholesome as exercise can be to a distempered body. They do indeed produce similar effects with exercise, for they stregnthen and confirm the mind....
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