Famous Quotes

"Adversity causes some men to break others to break records."

William Arthur Ward on Sports

More quotes about Sports

• "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

  Michael Jordan on Sports

• "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "Golf is a good walk spoiled."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

  Hunter S. Thompson on Sports

• "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

  Henry David Thoreau on Sports

More quotes by William Arthur Ward

• "It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses."

• "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."

• "Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority."

• "Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk."

• "The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails."