5,260 Quotes About Sports

No Student can stand the Gruel of Sports Training unless she has a Passion for Fame.

We live in a culture that sees extreme exercise as crazy," Dr. Bramble says, "because that's what our brain tells us: why fire up the machine if you don't have to?

Surf the wave of insanity.

It’s the Olympics. If you can’t get up to swim early in the morning, don’t go.

Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body is busy at noble tasks, creativity flows like water in a stream: the artist creates, the writer writes.

Some people look at you and they look right through you, like they're looking for the next person to talk to. But with Vigil, you never felt unimportant in front of him.-- Larry Fujimoto, Alamosa High School, 1954-1958

I grew up caring about things. I just carried it over into my work. I knew that people had problems. I knew that my mom had problems. I knew the problems that people on the south side had. I tried to get them all to the next level of success, something you could be proud of. And I just practiced the same principles on the team.-- Joe I. Vigil

(I would tell my athletes) you're here; your parents are sacrificing to send you to school. Don't let them down. Work a little harder. Be accountable. Be an impact person for your team. Help your teammates out. You know, they're not machines; they're going to have a bad every now and then.-- Joe I. Vigil

I think the summation of Coach Vigil is that he is a coaches' coach, and there are very few of those in this business. The ultimate compliment that any coach has is that you have a go-to person -- and we call those mentors. But then you have a person like Coach Vigil, who is a step ahead of the vast majority of coaches in the United States.-- Lance Harter, head coach, University of Arkansas women's cross country and track and field