5,260 Quotes About Sports

This has been a story about ice rinks and all the hearts that beat in and around them. About people and sports and how they sometimes take it in turns to carry each other. About us, dreaming and fighting.

There's an old saying in Hed: "Tell a stranger you hate Beartown and you'll have a friend for life." The smallest child in Hed is quick to learn that it's important for Hed Hockey to do well, but that it's even more important that things go really badly for Beartown. Partly in jest, obviously. The stands are full of screamed threats about "hating" and "killing" each other, but of course they aren't serious. Until all of a sudden they are.

Secretariat has just tied the world record for nine furlongs. He is running now as if in contempt of the clock. Those watching him begin to comprehend the magnitude of the effort. He is moving beyond the standard by which the running horse has been traditionally judged, not tiring, not leg weary, not backing up a stroke, dimensionless in scope, and all the time Turcotte asking nothing of him.

I don't know where the limit is, but I know where it is not.

Anybody could’ve heard. What if there’d been a recruiter nearby? Or worse, a reporter? Fuck.” Straightening, Mitch downed the rest of the beer, then set the glass on the floor. Cody’s eyebrows pulled down and he rubbed Mitch’s arm. “Because you can’t be gay in sports.

Practice hard,Train hard,work hard and Play harder.

The Zone is when you are being intensely aware of what you are doing in that instant.

My coaching philosophy is rooted in the foundational belief that facing your fears head-on will result in performance breakthroughs. Pushing your body to new physical extremes can be seriously uncomfortable. But the better an athlete becomes at facing that fear - embracing it, even - the sooner he or she will realize that it's possible to push beyond the anticipated limits.

Sports creates complicated men, proud enough to refuse to admit their mistakes, but humble enough always to put their team first.