Carl Lewis Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

  Carl Lewis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

• Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

  Carl Lewis

  Life, Sports, Inspire

  "BARCELONA: TRACK & FIELD; With Speed to Burn, U.S. Wins 3 Relays" by Michael Janofsky, www.nytimes.com. August 9, 1992.

• Channel your energy. Focus.

  Carl Lewis

  Sports, Running, Focus

  Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside

• My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

  Carl Lewis

  Basketball, Sports, Running

  Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside

• The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

  Carl Lewis

  Sports, Teamwork, Kids

  "Carl Lewis On Sportsmanship, Olympic Legacy". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 6, 2008.

• Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

  Carl Lewis

  Sports, Want, Discrimination

• 'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.

  Carl Lewis

  Sports, Long, Mind

• I always separated sports and my personal life.

  Carl Lewis

  Sports, Personal Life

  Interview with Richard Deitsch, www.si.com. August 2, 2004.

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