SPORTSMAN SPIRIT

Sports Quotes

Glimpses into Sportsman Spirit

Sports quotes, at times, may give us a glimpse of insight into the sportsman spirit. Whatever, they are always good to read at least once!

Abe Lemmons:

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

Andrew Dickson White:

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

Author Unknown:

Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.

Author Unknown:

Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever.

Author Unknown:

Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.

Author Unknown:

It is not how big you are, it's how big you play.

Babe ruth:

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.

Bill Taylor:

Players win games, teams win championships.

Blaise Pascal:

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Casey Stengel:

Most games are lost, not won.

Cool Runnings:

A gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it.

Dean Smith:

If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you're going to have problems. You'll be dead a lot.

Dick Ritger:

All sports are games of inches.

Earl Warren:

I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures.

George A. Sheehan:

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

George Bernard Shaw :

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.

George Mikes:

Many continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

George Orwell:

I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield. Even if they didn't know from concrete examples (the 1936 Olympics, for instance) that international sporting contests lead to orgies of hatred, one could deduce it from general principles... At the international level sport is frankly mimic warfare.

George Orwell:

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting... there are quite enough real causes of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators.

Haywood Hale Broun:

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Howard Cosell:

Sports is the toy department of human life.

Jake:

They may not win, but they lose beautifully.

J.J. Bentley:

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

Lord Byron:

In play there are two pleasures for your choosing -The one is winning, and the other losing.

Michael Jordan:

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Pierre de Coubertin:

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

Plato:

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Robert Morley:

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

Sandy Lyle:

It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

Simon Barnes:

Sport is dead when citius, altius, fortius is replaced by fixius, drugius, corruptius. We have reached the logical end of sport. Everywhere you look, you find stories of people who have taken the sport out of sport. We expect to hear the decisions on the Italian football match-fixing scandal. The football itself is a sham, going through the motions. The real action takes place on the telephone in the weeks before the game. In England, three jockeys have been suspended from riding after being accused by police of fixing races. The dominant point of this year's Tour de France is not the pedal pushing but the second significant drugs scandal in eight years: the revelation of the incontrovertible fact that professional cycling is institutionally corrupt. These three things - match-fixing, race-fixing, institutionalized drugging - come down to the same thing, and it is the greatest error in all of professional sport. The error in question is that sport is about winning. Winning at all costs. That winning is not the most important thing, but the only thing. If you sincerely believe that winning is everything, all the rest follows. If the only ethic is victory, then these things are not options. They are demanded: the least you can do... The essential fact about sport is that you don't know what happens next. No one does. We watch sport not for the victory, but for the struggle. In other words, those that seek victory at all costs are destroying sport. They are creating a spectacle in which we, the punters, have no interest. People are far less interested in track and field athletics than they once were because there has been too much drugging... Professionalism will be the death of sport; or it will, if we carry on believing in it. But at last, we are beginning to see the price of winning at all costs.

Vince Lombardi:

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

Vince Lombardi:

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

MIND POWER

Mind power is the application of alpha meditation techniques to focus your untapped mental powers, and is one of the most empowering of all personal development methods.

This is where you begin learn to use your mind as a tool - in fact it is the most powerful tool at your disposal.

The techniques used in developing your mind are borrowed directly from the art of meditation. It is strange that a life changing technique like this is not the application of effort, in fact the reverse is true.

The term Meditation covers a wide range of skills, methods and practices, some of which have been developed and refined over at least five thousand years.

Meditating was once regarded as the domain of monks and mystics, yet today more and more people are finding a place in their life for meditation techniques.

These may range from methods of relaxation through to esoteric spiritual practices.

The idea of practicing meditation techniques often conjures up images of a shaven-headed monk sitting cross-legged on top of a mountain, oblivious to the world around him.

I would also include a quiet walk in nature as being within the realms of meditation techniques.

These all have at their core one thing in common - they are focusing your mind, which means they are putting you in charge of your own mind.

The object here is not to remove you from daily life so much as to put you in charge of it.

Sportsmen use mind power techniques to focus their efforts and improve on their performances, businessmen are taught mind power techniques in the guise of visualizing the outcome of goals and also to relax and relieve stress.

50 Greatest Sportsmen Of the World

1. Pele - Soccer
2. Jim Thorpe - Football, Track and Field
3. Tiger Woods - Golf
4. Muhammed Ali - Boxing
5. Jessie Owens - Track and Field
6. Michael Jordan - Basketball
7. Carl Lewis - Track and Field
8. Jack Nicklaus - Golf
9. Wayne Gretzky - Ice Hockey
10. Jean-Claude Killy – Skiing
11. Lance Armstrong-Cycling
12. Garfield Sobers - Cricket
13. Garrincha - Soccer
14. Hank Aaron - Baseball
15. Miguel Indurain - Cycling
16. Aryton Senna - Motor Racing
17. Johan Cruyff - Soccer
18. Pete Sampras - Tennis
19. Diego Mardonna – Soccer
20. Roger Federer – Tennis
21. Michael Schumacher - FI
22. Paavo Nurmi - Track and Field
23. Rod Laver - Tennis
24. Jahanghir Khan - Squash
25. Wilt Chaimberlain - Basketball
26. Babe Ruth - Baseball
27. Jim Brown - Football
28. Lasse Viren - Track and Field
29. Mark Spitz - Swimming
30. Joe Louis - Boxing
31. Bobby Orr - Ice Hockey
32. Sugar Ray Leonard - Boxing
33. Stanley Matthews - Soccer
34. Donald Bradman - Cricket
35. Eddie Merckx - Cycling
36. Sergei Bubka - Pole Vaulting
37. Johnny Weismuller - Swimming
35. Jerry Rice – Football
36. Eric Heiden – Speed Skating
37. Viktor Barna – Table Tennis
38. Dale Earnhardt – Nascar
39. Brian Lara – Cricket
40. Willie Mays – Baseball
41. Joe Montana - Football
42. Rocky Marciano - Boxing
43. Matt Biondi - Swimming
44. Tom Watson - Golf
45. Mario Lemieux - Ice Hockey
46. Magic Johnson - Basketball
47. Zinedine Zidane - Soccer
48. Bjorn Borg - Tennis
49. Roger Clemens - Baseball
50. John McEnroe - Tennis

Physical Qualities Of Sportsmen

Each person possesses certain impellent possibilities (for example, Can lift any weight, run so much metres for certain time and Etc.). They are realised in certain movements which differ nearby Characteristics, both qualitative, and quantitative. So, for example, sprintersky Run and marathon race make qualitatively various demands to an organism, Cause display of different physical qualities. Physical (or impellent) It is accepted to name qualities the separate parties of impellent possibilities of the person.

В«physical qualityВ» unites Concept, In particular, those parties of a motility of the person, which:

1) are shown In identical parametres of movement also are measured by identical way — have The same measuring instrument (for example, the maximum speed);

2) have Similar physiological and biochemical mechanisms also demand display Similar properties of mentality.

As consequence of it an education technique Physical quality has the general lines without dependence from a concrete kind Movements. For example, endurance in swimming and run improve in Much similar ways though these movements are sharply various.

Representation about physical qualities Has arisen originally in the methodical literature on physical training and To sports (V.Ukhov, 1875; Lagranzh, 1892; De-meni, 1915; Schmidt, 1925; A.D.Novikov, 1941, 1949, etc.) and only then has gradually won the citizenship rights in Physiology of sports and other scientific disciplines. Necessity of introduction along with Traditional representation about impellent skills eshe and a special category «the physical Qualities »it is caused by inquiries of practice, in particular distinctions in a technique Teaching. So, at training to movements the teacher can the uncountable In the ways to help pupils to receive representation about correct performance — about Body position, direction and amplitude of movement, its rhythm, etc. But in The relation of force, speed, duration and other similar parametres Movements it can give only such instructions as «is stronger — more poorly», «faster — More slowly », etc.

Using mathematical terminology, Would be admissible to speak about multidimensionality of impellent skills (in that sense, That skill, to be exact — movement in which it is realised, is possible full enough To characterise, only having specified in very big number of its parametres) and One-dimensionalities of physical qualities (at their display in concrete movement).

Though development of physical qualities, as As well as formation of impellent skills, in many respects depends on formation uslovnoreflektornyh relations in the central nervous system (N. V.Zimkin, 1954, 1956, etc.), for physical qualities much bigger value have Biochemical and morphological (in particular histologic) reorganisations in Organism as a whole.

For development of physical qualities It is characteristic considerably smaller in comparison with formation of skills osoznavaemost those components of which there is a success in achievement The planned purpose. It is possible to tell to the person as it is necessary to carry out this or that Movement (for example, a double somersault), but no explanations will help to establish The best coordination relations in activity of cardiovascular system, To achieve bolshej endurance.

Existence of two parties of the impellent Functions —

skills and qualities leads to allocation in Physical training process (in sports training) two directions: Training to movements (technical training) and education of physical qualities (the physical Preparation).

2. Terminological remarks. We We use in the present book terms physical and impellent qualities as The equivalent. Both of them are not quite ideal, however hardly probable correctly to give To the given question the basic Value and to arrange in this occasion of discussion.

Distinction between terms education and Development of physical qualities is represented to us rather essential. Development Physical qualities there is a process of their change in a human life course. For example, in Force development are marked its gradual lifting by 25—30 years, then the period Stabilisation and the subsequent decrease, etc. Education of physical qualities we We name pedagogical managerial process, influences on development for the purpose of it Changes in the direction necessary to us. So, speaking about force education, we discuss Question on a choice of training exercises, their dosage and so forth Differently: The term development designates the changes occurring in an organism; the term Education — the actions necessary that these changes corresponded to ours To desires. We understand, that a word-combination «education of physical qualities» Is unusual for the most part of readers. But it, perhaps, unique Its lack.

We are represented correct to speak about Physical qualities of the person, instead of about qualities of impellent activity, as It often do (N.N.Jakovlev, And. V.Korobkov, With. V.Jananis, 1957, etc.). The bases for this purpose two: first, qualities (for example, endurance) are Some characteristic of the person, instead of movement; we speak about force of L. Zhabotinsky, P.Bolotnikova's-endurance; we improve, at last, in sports The person, its possibilities to carry out those or other movements, instead of movements. Secondly, undoubtedly, that impellent qualities of the person are shown in those or Other characteristics (parametres) of movement, defining the maximum conducted -

ranks of these parametres. However distinctions Between указа1 nymi in sizes, naturally, Quantitative, instead of ka chestvennye. For example, run on 100 m from the point of view ana | liza the movement differs from marathon race on advantage only Quantitatively (speed of run, force ottalkivany and t are various длин* distances. The item), not actively »ate these quantitatively various kinds and demand for the successful Performance kachestven ' but other properties of the person — speed and endurance.

Michael Phelps

Michael Fred Phelps (born June 30, 1985) is an American swimmer. He has won 14 career Olympic gold medals, the most by any Olympian. As of 2008, Phelps holds seven world records in swimming.

Phelps holds the record for the most gold medals at a single Olympics, his eight at the 2008 Beijing Games surpassing American swimmer Mark Spitz's seven gold performance at Munich in 1972.

Overall, Phelps has won 16 Olympic medals: six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008. In doing so he has twice equaled the record eight medals of any type at a single Olympics achieved by Soviet gymnast Alexander Dityatin at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games. His five golds in individual events tied the single Games record set by Eric Heiden in the 1980 Winter Olympics and equaled by Vitaly Scherbo at the 1992 Summer Games. Phelps career Olympic medal total is second only to the 18 Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina won over three Olympics, including nine gold.

Phelps's international titles and record breaking performances have earned him the World Swimmer of the Year Award in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008 and American Swimmer of the Year Award in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008. He has won a total of 48 career medals thus far in major international competition, forty gold, six silver, and two bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, and the Pan Pacific Championships. His unprecedented Olympic success in 2008 earned Phelps Sports Illustrated magazine's Sportsman of the Year award.

BEIJING 2008

BEIJING, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian powerlifter Lucy Ogechukwu Ejike was the most eyecatching woman on Wednesday's competition at Beijing Paralympics, not only because of the gold medal, but also her surprising performance.

The 31-year-old, winner of the women's 44kg category in 2004 Athens Paralympics, broke the world record of the 48kg category two times to win the gold. Her winning mark was 130kg, while the old world record was 118kg held by Bian Jianxin of China.

"I like the feeling of breaking the world record," she said. "Before I came here I planned to break the world record. In Athens 2004 Paralympic Games, I was competing in the 44kg category and I broke the world record three times. This time I moved to the 48kg category, as I did in Athens 2004 Paralympic Games, I set a world record, broke it, set it again and broke it again."

Beijing Paralympics is the third Paralympics for Ejike, who made her first in 2000 Sydney Paralympics and was the silver medallist in the 44kg category.

Wearing a pink shirt, Ejike seemed quite confident during the competition and improved the world record to 125kg in her first lift, and renewed it to 130kg in her second attempt.

The gold medalist was very happy to share her experience, "My secret of always breaking world record is discipline and hard working," she said.

The hercules tried 137.5kg in her third lift, but failed. "To break the world record twice in a day is good enough for me," said Ejike.

The world record of women's 44kg is also held by Ejike, which is 127kg. She thought her new world record would stand long. "The world record I set in 44kg is still there, and maybe it will be the same for 48kg. But if I am still in this category, I will break it myself one day. My personal best is 142kg in training."

Though has to use a wheelchair due to polio, Ejike has never lost her passion for life. "I can go anywhere like everybody else, and I really like powerlifting" she said. "I love bright colors, which makes me much happier. Pink is my color."

Russia's Olesva Lafina effortlessly lifted 112.5 and 115kg in her first two attempts to win the silver medal, but made a no-lift in her third attempt at 122.5kg. The bronze went to Souhad Ghazouani of France in 112.5kg.