The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don’t worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it’s not the same ball.

~ Shane Warne

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

~ Shane Warne

All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.

~ Mark Viduka

The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn’t wired that way. You’re accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

~ Ken Venturi

When you’re walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, ‘the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.’

~ Daley Thompson

We play a sport. It’s a game. At the end of the day, that’s all it is, is a game. It doesn’t make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you’re no better. By losing a game, you’re no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same.

~ Tim Tebow

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.

~ Dean Smith

I’ve kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.

~ Eric Shanteau

Billy Donovan’s lessons

By Rick Reilly, ESPN.com
Originally Published: 8 MArch, 2013

One day, Florida’s Billy Donovan was jogging when he passed a woman sobbing on a curb.

He ran past. A couples of miles later, he hit his halfway mark and turned around. On the way back, she was still sitting there, weeping. He had practice to plan, a pile of paperwork on his desk and game tape to watch, but he just couldn’t run by her twice… Click here to read on

But you have to remember in life that there’s a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

~ Anne Hathaway