Athletes are used to battling. The public would never learn their names if professional athletes had not shown courage at an early age. They learn they can overcome, but sometimes this becomes a false sense of security that leads them to the edge.

George Vecsey
Some Similar Quotes
  1. No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became... - Pablo
  2. When You Are Old"WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments... - W.b. Yeats
  3. I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning. There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes? I know you are unable to imagine this. Nevertheless,... - Meg Rosoff
  4. His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious... - Ernest Hemingway
  5. Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one. - Arthur Golden
More Quotes By George Vecsey
  1. I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.
  2. I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.
  3. Some anthems are great for sports. You've got the Russian national anthem... 'O Canada, ' how wonderful is that for hockey... but I chose the Italian national song because at my first World Cup, I saw the Italians play four times, and they won all...
  4. When I was a kid, my father brought home the autobiography of Sid Luckman, the great Chicago Bears quarterback - probably an extra copy from the sports department where he worked. It was the first sports biography I ever read.
  5. Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.
Related Topics