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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

Nobody roots for Goliath.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

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.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.