Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.
Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
Whenever I have played a game of cricket, whether it is under-16, under-19, or State level, my approach has been the same.
Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.
I learned all about life with a ball at my feet
We try to play football; don't forget it, right. My teams always in my career try to play football. I cannot control the other circumstances.
Sure, it's nice to get appreciation from the outside. But generally, I don't think personal accolades are appropriate in football.
It's the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.
The ball is round, the game is long.
Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
If you play hockey, you might as well win.
The clock doesn?t matter in baseball.
Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.
You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking
Play always as if in the presence of a master.
I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: 'We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.'
I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played.
I don't believe in moral victories. I don't think in pro ball they exist, and they shouldn't exist.
I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.
Too many people look on outscoring someone as winning, I never tried to get that across to my players.
The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.
It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.
