Top 1200 Sports Leadership Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.

Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.

If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.

The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them.

To compare writing an article for 'Sports Illustrated' to doing a piece for 'Real Sports', the article, it was all me. You know, I'm out there by myself with my pad and pencil. 'Real Sports,' I've got a producer, an assistant producer, and cameramen. It's an individual game versus a team game.

We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.

When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now its called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

I'm not an agate type ESPN Sports Center highlight, in-your-face kind of a sports fan.

Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development!

Talking about and analyzing sports isn't the same as playing sports.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.

There is lots of enthusiasm among youth of Haryana about sports. They have potential in sports.

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.

Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals. The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is leadership.

Sports are my passion. They have been since I was a kid. So I think I'll be involved in sports in some capacity no matter what I do.

By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.

Deion Sanders played two sports, and Bo Jackson played two sports. I'm not athletic enough to do two sports, but I think I'm good enough to do two professions and do them pretty well at a high level.

All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.

My main goal when I talk to groups is to educate families on the physical and mental health benefits that playing sports provide young girls. It's not just about going out there and having fun. That's a part of playing sports, but a big chunk of it is all the other things that sports give you to help you become a much more whole, better person.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.

Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

Leadership exists when people are no longer victims of circumstances but participate in creating new circumstances. Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately, leadership is about creating new realities.

There is that definition of leadership that says, 'Leadership is convincing people to do things that they otherwise wouldn't have done because you've made them believe it's the right thing to do.' And a great speech can do that.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

I have always been into all kinds of sports, and have blended acting with sports.

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

I am really passionate about sports in general - especially water sports.

I'm the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I'm still convinced that it's teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes.

In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

Sports are never just sports, we all know that. You're always carrying the flag in some way, shape or form.

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

Maybe God brought me here to inspire the youth to engage in sports and teach them the value of sports.

Words have consequences and SAG-AFTRA members deserve leadership that is interested in the path forward, not a return to the divisiveness of the past. I am proud to provide that leadership.

I was a creative kid; I wasn't really into sports, and sports in the South are a pretty big deal. It's like a religion down there.

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

Leadership potential exists in everybody. What I think we have missed is that we have somehow relegated leadership only to a special, talented few people.

I want everyone to know that Russia in general and the Russian leadership, it is something effective and properly functioning. That the country itself, its institutions, leaders are represented by healthy, capable people who are ready for cooperation with our partners in every single area: sports, politics, fight against modern threats. I have nothing but a positive feeling about it.

We want to find a way to be an environmental leader in motor sports, as well as in sports in general.

I think all good sports movies aren't really about sports.

First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports.

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.

It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.

I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.

I was good at sports - basketball, football, tennis and dropped them all. At 16, I didn't care about sports anymore.

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

When we look at the majority of the American people, when they believe that their leadership is letting them down, there is only one option out there for us, and that's to change that leadership.

'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and everything to sports.

I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or something. They are in an interestingly complex position in which they have to mediate the world of body and the world of words.