Richard Nixon Sport Quotes

And having won some and lost some

"And having won some and lost some, I know, as you know, that winning is a lot more fun. But I also know that defeat or adversity can react on a person in different ways. He can give up; he can complain about a world he never made; or he can search the lessons of defeat and find the inspiration for another try, or a new career, or a richer understanding of the world and of life itself."

Sports writer

"As far as I am concerned I just want you to know that I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would have liked to have ended up a sports writer."

Baseball

"Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning."

Roberto Clemente

"Every sports fan admired and respected Roberto Clemente as one of the greatest baseball players of our time. In the tragedy of his untimely death, we are reminded that he deserved even greater respect and admiration for his splendid qualities as a generous and kind human being. He sacrificed his life on a mission of mercy. The best memorial we can build to his memory is to contribute generously for the relief of those he was trying to help the earthquake victims in Nicaragua."

Here is a man

"Here is a man who did sit on the bench. And instead of whining about it, instead of saying that the coach was at fault or the system was at fault, and quitting or, for that matter, sulking, which seems to be rather a fashionable and common thing to do these days when everything doesn't go your own way -- he just kept going along and trying harder, and eventually he came up. And that's what he stands for."

Football game

"I really believe while I like to go to a football game live and feel the crowd and the rest, I really believe that when you sit at home and see a football game on television, you can probably see it as well or even better that you can see it by being there, because the camera will watch that T formation or the quarterback and will be sure your're watching the ball rather than the fake."

Hopelessly

"I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked."

Spirit and morale

"In baseball, there is a very great difference between the two; in football, spirit, morale, is half the game. In baseball it doesn't make all that much difference."

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