"Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it."
- Ian Darke, soccer commentator

�It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference."
- Coach Paul W. "Bear" Bryant, football coach

"Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested."
- Tom Kite, golfer

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
- Ernest Hemingway, author

"At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence."
- Arsene Wenger, soccer manager

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club wont be worth a dime."
- Babe Ruth, baseball player

"The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players."
- Don Coryell, football coach

"The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game."
- Bill Shankly, soccer manager/player

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
- Frank Zappa, singer

"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success."
- Charlie Finley, baseball owner

"How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser."
- Lou Holtz, football coach

�Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.�
- Bill Shankly, soccer manager/player

"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."
- Herschel Walker, football player

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
- Darrel Royal, football coach

�A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.�
- Brianna Scurry, soccer player

"You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win."
- Arsene Wenger, soccer manager