5,260 Quotes About Sports

The way I represent my individuality is by mixing classic pieces - like sports jackets - with little, unexpected additions.

This is what makes sports so amazing, that we can start a discussion around a table, in the newspaper, in the magazines, that will get people's attention. And that's what sports does.

The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.

I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.

The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.