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I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.
I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all read more
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot.
(on his decision not to read more
I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot.
(on his decision not to vote)
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t read more
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it read more
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
We train by a parkway, which runs beside a river. If we had a lonely end, he either would be read more
We train by a parkway, which runs beside a river. If we had a lonely end, he either would be hit by a car or drown.
(on why he doesn't use a lonely end)
He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.
(on read more
He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.
(on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota)
The game was closer than the score indicated.
(after a 1-0 game)
The game was closer than the score indicated.
(after a 1-0 game)