“You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.” ThinkingMindPlayMomentsUsedGamesSportsReadyTrainingPreparationPitcherBallparks Author:Hank Aaron
“In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and competition. The developing athletes who make the fastest progress and those who ultimately become their best make extensive use of mental imagery. They use it daily as a means of directing what will happen in training, and as a way of pre-experiencing their best competition performances.” WayMeanHelpingUseHappensUsedSportsProgressTrainingPerformancesCompetitionAthleteDevelopingMotivational SportsImageryMental Imagery Author:Terry Orlick
“The sport has changed so much since 2004, it's incredible. If you look even at me, the way I'm fencing now compared to 2004, it's a completely different sport. They've changed so many things just with what [the referees] are calling, they've changed the timing of the [scoring] lights. You always have to be evolving as a fencer. The Olympics is interesting because it's such a small field compared to what we're used to. This world championships, I think we had a hundred and something [athletes]. The Olympics is going to be less than 32.” IfsThinkingWorldWayLooksDifferentLightUsedSportsInterestingFieldsThis WorldChangedCallingHundredIncrediblesAthleteEvolveTimingOlympicsChampionshipRefereeFencing Author:Mariel Zagunis
“Sport can be used for messaging, for example, making the connections between shin guards or a helmet that protects you, and protection in terms of HIV and AIDS. There has also been a very active program in Africa called 'Kick Polio out of Africa,' where soccer players have spoken out in terms of polio. There is also going to be a swim for malaria.” UsedSportsTermPlayerExampleProtectProgramConnectionsActiveProtectionAidsSoccerKicksSwimHivProtect YouHelmetMalariaSoccer PlayerPolio Author:Carol Bellamy
“We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.” WorldStoriesUsedSportsIllnessRemarkableComebackGail Author:Bob Costas
“when I was younger I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation. In the book, that's how all the sports helped me in my strategies for football and life.” NeedsFeelsBookUsedSportsAbilitySituationFootballCapacityStrategyAthleteEnduranceAthleticStaminaWrestlerAthletic Ability Author:Dhani Jones
“As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.” UsedSportsUsed To Be Author:John McEnroe
“It has changed, quite a lot. It is very different now, there are quicker men, they are taller, stronger, have great stamina. The balls have also become faster. Tennis has now become a power sport. There is more depth in the game, as well, there are many more players than there used to be. The entire character of the game has changed.” MenWellsDifferentCharacterUsedGamesSportsPlayerChangedBallsStrongerDepthUsed To BeFasterTennisStamina Author:Bjorn Borg
“When I put some Tabasco on things, and there's really nothing in Tabasco, it's not bad for you in any way, so that's kind of become my substitute. Now you got to get used to a hot mouth, but that's okay.” WayKindUsedSportsMouthsOkayHotSubstitutesTabasco Author:Mike Ditka
“We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?” FactsProblemUsedFunSportsAthleteSteak Author:Jesse Owens
“The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.” BookUsedSportsBallsGolf Author:George Plimpton
“My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.” PersonsPlayUsedGamesSportsLevelsSuccessfulTeamFootballDadMy DadArguingBeing SuccessfulUnclesRugbySports TeamGreat Team Author:Clint Eastwood
“There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading The Times editorial pages and the Daily Mail sports pages.” UsedReadingHouseSportsEnjoyPagesTablesCoffeeNewspapersPlentyMailGuardianEditorialsTelegraphFixtureDaily Mail Author:Lionel Barber
“My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.” UsedGirlSportsDadMy DadMakeupShallowArmor Book:All the Rage Source: All the Rage
“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
“David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.” ThinkingYearsKindBookUsedStarsSportsChallengesMemoriesTelevisionAthleteUsed To BeVarietyGenerousGenesAthleticsProfessional AthleteAll StarsDecathlon Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“My kids used to do things to aggravate me, too. I'd take them to a game, and they'd want to come home with a different player.” WantDifferentHomeKidsUsedGamesSportsPlayerComing Home Author:Bob Uecker
“I was always interested in sport. My family are big sports' fans. We always had all the locals round watching big sporting events. I wasn't particularly sporty myself. I played a lot of hockey and rode, still do ride, but I just had a general interest in it. When I was given the opportunity to do sport stories I used to grab them.” StillsStoriesBigsUsedOpportunityGivenSportsInterestFansEventsMy FamilyRoundsLocalsHockeySports FanSporting Events Author:Jill Douglas
“I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.” PersonsPlayWould BeSchoolUsedFunSportsPiecesFootballActivityBasketballActivePrimariesDramaticSwimmingPhysical ActivityPrimary SchoolGaelicSprinters Author:Saoirse Ronan
“Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport” WayLongSometimesCharacterUsedPassionLeftSportsCommunityBusinessCareersCasesMediaMarkAppropriateDescriptionAustraliaRemarksAustralianLarger Than LifeGreat PassionLong CareersPackers Author:John Howard
“Sport used to play a phenomenal part in my life, because I used to play a lot of county sport, a lot of sport for my school. I love team sports. Talk about being with the boys. I love the camaraderie. That's why I like acting.” PlaySchoolUsedSportsActingBoysTeamCountyPhenomenalSports TeamCamaraderie Author:Matthew William Goode
“I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.” PeopleKindPersonsPlayUsedSportsChangedQuietCatRegardMadStormHanging OutReservedThings Have ChangedPosse Author:Bernie Mac
“When I looked into the story of Soviet hockey and its players, I realized that it has nothing to do with hockey. It was a larger story using hockey as a window into the story of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian people, with friendships and betrayals, paranoia and oppression, and the meaning of sports to people and nations around the world, and how sports was used as a political tool.” PeopleWorldStoriesPoliticalUsedFallNationsSportsPlayerToolsWindowUnionsBetrayalI RealizedOppressionAround The WorldHockeySovietSoviet UnionParanoiaRise And Fall Author:Gabe Polsky