“I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.” FeelsWishFeltSportsPlayerRemarkableVisitingReceptionBallparks Author:Mark McGwire
“It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.” MadeBodyFeltSportsPerspectivePostsEaseRetiringOlympicsComeback Author:Alicia Sacramone
“I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.” WinningFeltSportsChanceGolfPerseveranceMotivational SportsOddsInspirational SportsNever QuitAthleticGolfingI QuitGolf LifeGreat GolfFunny GolfMotivational Inspirational SportsGreat GolfingFunny GolfingAgainst All OddsGreat Inspirational SportsGreat Motivational SportsAthletic InspirationalAgainst The OddsMotivational GolfOverwhelming OddsOdds Against You Author:Arnold Palmer
“The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played, or was any good at. It felt natural to sit at my computer and type and type some more. For entire minutes, while writing, I could forget the godawful thing that had happened. I could forget that nothing really mattered anymore. Perhaps, if I set my sights low, I could care again about some small thing. I would type a word. One word. Then another. I started to care about the words, then entire sentences.” IfsWritingCareFeltSportsNaturalForgetHappenedSeaMinutesTypeComputerLowsSightSentencesSavedSolitarySmall ThingsOne WordBoilingFlotsam Book:Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir Source: Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir
“When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled. It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors. It was three years between the junior ranks and reaching the Australian Open, and even then, having reached the final against Hingis, I wasn't really realising what it would take to go higher.” YearsHappensWould BeAbleThreeWinningFeltSportsHalfCasesHigherFinalsFinishedReachingRealisingThree YearsJuniorsAustralian Author:Amelie Mauresmo
“When we played against Dan Marino, the best defense was to keep him on the sideline. By keeping him on the sideline, you made him frustrated. You made him anxious. When he came on the field, he felt like he had to score every time. I think that is where Peyton Manning is.” ThinkingMadeFeltSportsFieldsDefenseScoreAnxiousFrustratedSidelinesPeyton Author:Boomer Esiason
“Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.” YearsStillsLastsFeltSportsDifficultNumbersInjuryStalemate Author:Elvis Stojko
“We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year.” ThinkingYearsTogetherLastsFallWinningStrongFeltSportsChanceLast YearChampionshipGood ChancePrevious Years Author:Sterling Marlin
“"She (Minnie Ruth Solomon) was unusual because even though I knew her family was as poor as ours, nothing she said or did seemed touched by that. Or by prejudice. Or by anything the world said or did. It was as if she had something inside her that somehow made all that not count. I fell in love with her some the first time we ever talked, and a little bit more every time after that until I thought I couldn't love her more than I did. And when I felt that way, I asked her to marry me . . . and she said she would."” IfsWorldWayFirstsLittlesMadeSaidFeltBitsSportsPoorLittle BitFirst TimePrejudiceAthleteTouchedUnusualMarry MeRuthSolomonMinnie Author:Jesse Owens
“If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, Felt in the tingling bruises of collision, And known to captains as esprit de corps.” IfsHeartReasonBodySpiritFeltSportsKnownCaptainsBruisesCollisionEsprit De Corps Book:Collected Earlier Poems Source: Collected Earlier Poems
“I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.” YearsUsedFoundFeltSportsFourBrotherSafeBeatsMy BrotherBoxingControlledGymSquares Author:Sugar Ray Leonard
“I felt comfortable in the water. I was in my own world, focused. I love sports and I'm a very goal-oriented person. Once I started falling in love with sports, it was easy. I was able to put my mind on something and go for it. That's how I am with everything, it doesn't matter what it is that I do. If I want to do something, nothing will stand in my way.” IfsWorldWayWantMindPersonsMatterAbleFallFeltEasySportsGoalWaterMy OwnComfortableFalling In LoveFocusedMy WayMy Own WorldGoal Oriented Author:Michael Phelps
“But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a year, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf and bridge - and whenever I felt like talking or writing, doing it with abandon and with no sense of responsibility whatsoever - maybe such a life wouldn't be so bad.” ThinkingWritingYearsTwoWholeThreeFeltSportsResponsibilityTalkingSummerGolfShootingBridgesFishingPrizeAbandonThree TimesCattleSense Of Responsibility Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience” IfsYoungFeltSportsWifeSonToughAreasElectionMy WifeYoung Sons Author:Imran Khan
“What I saw so clearly when I started climbing was adventure. Difficulty was only an ingredient. I never thought to wonder about grades, just as I never thought to wonder what Tarzan might bench press. I found the closer I moved to sport, the closer I felt to science - and the closer I moved to adventure, the closer I felt to greatness.” MightFoundFeltSportsWonderSawsGreatnessAdventureDifficultyMovedPressesGradesIngredientsClimbingBenches Author:Peter Croft
“Confidence is a big part of any sport, but as far as sports psycholgy, I met with one last year before the season, and hell I just felt stupid after that, so I try to stay out of there.” TryingYearsBigsLastsFeltSportsHellStupidMetsSeasonsLast Year Author:Clint Bowyer