It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good read more

It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free.
(explaining his contractual obligations)

They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free.
(explaining his contractual obligations)

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)

I'm a golfer -- not an athlete.

I'm a golfer -- not an athlete.

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else read more

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in read more

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.