Sports in General

Things in the this section apply to any sport.

Page Toppers

Quotes

• Ability will get you to the top, character will keep you there. (John Wooden)
• Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. (William A. Ward)
• Always remember, your opponent wants to win as much as you do.
• Be humble in victory and gracious in defeat.
• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. (John Wooden)
• Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better.
• The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. (Vince Lombardi)
• Discipline is the refining fire which enables talent to become ability. (John Marcum)
• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. (John Wooden)
• Doubters don't win. Winners don't doubt.
• The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you put it. (Roger Bannister)
• Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win. (Bobby Knight)
• Extra discipline makes up for a lack of talent and a lack of discipline quickly siphons away extra talent, that's why it's frequently the most disciplined rather than the most gifted who rise to the top.
• Fans don't boo nobodies. (Reggie Jackson)
• First master the fundamentals. (Larry Bird)
• The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. (Peggy Fleming)
• Good is not enough if better is possible.
• If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today. (Mike Krzyzewski)
• If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. (Ronnie Lott)
• If you think small things don't matter, think of the last game you lost by one point.
• In practice, if you don't like to do it, it is probably good for you. (D. Cotrell)
• It takes no talent to hustle. (Hans Schmidt)
• It's easy to have faith in yourself and discipline when you're a winner, when you're Number 1. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you are not yet a winner. (Vince Lombardi)
• It's not the hours you put in, it's what you put in the hours.
• it's not the push from behind, or the pull from up front, but rather the drive from within. (Steve Bankston)
• It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. (Addison Walker)
• It's not whether you win or lose,
  it's how you play the game.
• It's only a game until you lose.
• Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious. (Al Maguire)
• Lack of confidence is born from a lack of preparation. (Shannon Wilburn)
• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. (Darrel Royal)
• The more you practice the luckier you get!
• One player practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.
• Perfection is not attainable but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. (Vince Lombardi)
• R.E.P.S.--Repetition Elevates Personal Skills. (Conor Gillen)
• Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you. (John Wooden)
• Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. (Tom Landry)
• Sports do not build character. They reveal it. (John Wooden)
• Sports should always be fun. (Charles Mann)
• Success is that place in the road where preparation meets opportunity. (Branch Rickey)
• There are two pains in life, the pain of discipline, and the pain of regret. Take your choice.
• Think and then act. Never act and then alibi. (Hank Iba)
• To be successful, you don't have to do extraordinary things. Just do ordinary things extraordinarily well. (John Rohn)
• To win, all you have to do is get up one more time than you fall.
• Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-the-last mistake.
• Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
• Victory or defeat is not determined at the moment of crisis, but rather in the long and unspectacular period of preparation.
• What to do with a mistake--recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. (Dean Smith)
• The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
• A winner is a dreamer who never quits.
• A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.
• Winners dwell on their desire, not their limitations.
• Work hard to make things easier. (Pete Carill)
• You are only defeated if you give up one more time than you get up.
• You can only win if you aren't afraid to lose.
• You can't win if you don't begin.
• You don't demand respect, you earn it. (Steve Seidler)
• Your toughest competition in life is anyone who is willing to work harder than you. (Casey Coleman)
• You're never a loser til you quit trying.
• You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. (Lou Holtz)

A Prayer for Sports Moms

May we make it on time
To field, pool or court.
Arrive safe and sound
And be a good sport!

Put Forth Your Best

(Patty M., CMC)

The contest lasts for moments
though the training's taken years.
It wasn't the winning alone
that was worth the work and tears.

The applause will be forgotten,
the prize will be misplaced.
But the long hard hours of practice
will never be a waste.

For in trying to win you build a skill;
you learn that winning depends on will.
You never grow by how much you win,
you only grow by how much you put in.

So in any new challenge you've just begun,
put forth your best and you've already won.

Sports ABC's

(compiled by Denny Davis)

A - acrobatics, adventure racing, aerobics, aikido, angling, archery, arm wrestling, auto racing, autocross
B - backpacking, badminton, barrel racing, baseball, basketball, beach volleyball, biking, billiards, blind cricket, boating, bob sledding, bocce, bow hunting, bowling, boxing, bull riding, bungee jumping
C - camping, canoeing, car racing, cave diving, cheerleading, climbing, coursing, cricket, croquet, cross country (racing or skiing), curling, cycling, cyclocross
D - darts, decathlon, deer hunting, disc golf, discus, diving, dog sledding, drag racing, dressage, duck hunting
E - equestrian sports, endurance riding, escrima, Extreme sports
F - fast-pitch softball, fencing, field hockey, figure skating, fishing, flag football, football, formula one racing, freestyle walking, Frisbee
G - Gaelic football, goalball, golf, grappling, gymkhana, gymnastics
H - handball, hang gliding, harness racing, high jump, highland games, hiking, hockey, horse racing, horseshoes, hunting, hurling
I - ice dancing, ice hockey, ice skating, Iditarod, Indy car racing, indoor soccer, in-line skating
J - jai alai, javelin, jogging, jousting, judo, juggling, jujitsu, jump rope
K - karate, karting, kayaking, Kentucky Derby, kickboxing, kite sailing, kite surfing
L - lacrosse, laser tag, lawn bowling, lifting weights, long jump, lowrider cycling, luge
M - marathon, marksmanship, martial arts, miniature golf, monster trucks, motocross, motorcycle racing, motor sports, mountain biking, mountain climbing
N - NASCAR, NBA, net sports, NFL, NHL, ninpo, Nordic skiing
O - obstacle course, off-roading, Olympics, orienteering, outrigger canoeing
P - paddle ball, paintball, parachuting, paragliding, paralympics, para-sailing, pentaque, ping pong, pole vault, polo, pool, power lifting
Q - quad-biking, quail hunting, quarter horse racing, quoits, Q-zar
R - race-walking, racing, racquet ball, rafting, rallying, relay racing, road racing, rock climbing, rodeo, roller-blading, roping, rowing, rugby, running
S - sailing, SCCA, scuba diving, skateboarding, skating, skeet shooting, skiing, skydiving, shooting, shot-put, show jumping, sled dog racing, slowpitch snow skiing, softball, snooker, snorkeling, snowboarding, soccer, softball, Special Olympics, sports car racing, sprint cars, squash, steeplechasing, stock car racing, surfing, swimming, synchronized swimming
T - table tennis, tae kwon do, tai chi, T-ball, tennis, track, tractor pulling, trekking, triathlon, triple jump, turkey shoot
U - ultimate Frisbee, underwater hockey, unicycling
V - vaulting, vintage racing, volleyball
W - walking, water ballet, water polo, water skiing, weight lifting, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair racing, whitewater rafting, wiffle ball, wind surfing, world cup, world series, wrestling
X - BMX, MotoX, X-games, XC bike racing, XC skiing, X-treme sports
Y - yachting, yoga, youth soccer
Z - Z-Cruiser (this is the name of a scooter, but I couldn't think of anything else for "Z")

(Include coach name, team, town, school colors, etc. - hopefully one of those will start with a "Z")

Badminton

Page Toppers

• Badminton is for the Birds!
• Badminton--What a Racket
• A Little Birdie Told Me About Badminton
• Watch the Birdie!

Facts and Quotes

• Badminton became a full competition Olympics sport in Barcelona, Spain, in 1992.
• Badminton is the world's fastest racket sport: a shuttle can leave the racket at a speed of almost 200 MPH.
• A badminton player can cover more than one mile in just one match.
• There are many people playing badminton in the US but the stereotype is that it is a backyard sport. I hope we succeed in demonstrating badminton as an intense sport with a high requirement of skills and physique. (Howard Bach)
• When badminton was accepted into the Barcelona Olympic Games it showed that there was an acceptance of my sport internationally. (Rhonda Cator)

Bowling

Page Toppers

• Bowled Over
• Bowlers Strike Me as Being Special
• Bowlers Always Have Time to Spare
• Bowlers Don't Strike Out
• Bowlers Don't End Up in the Gutter
• Bowlers Have Time to Spare!
• Bowlers Love to Strike Out!
• Bowlers Prayer: Spare Us!
• Bowling Bowls Me Over
• Bowling is a Ball
• Bowling is Right Up My Alley!
• Bowling Night
• I Only Bowl on Days That End With Y

Quotes

• Amateurs move it right to left, and pros move it front to back. (Del Ballard)
• The bowling alley is the poor man's country club. (Sanford Hansell)
• Every bowling center should have a house pro. (Don Johnson)
• Historical evidence has been found that William Tell and his family were avid bowlers. However, all the league records were unfortunately lost to antiquity. Thus we'll never know for whom the Tells bowled.
• If there is anyone who doesn't think I'm good enough for the Hall of Fame, just pick any bowler and I'll bowl him, and I'll beat the living daylights out of him! (Ernie Schlegel)
• If you don't knock all the pins down on the first ball, please spare me the details.
• It was so quiet in the bowling alley that you could hear a pin drop.
• It's late and I can't sleep. Bowling it is. (Gabriel Iglesias)
• One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball. (Don Carter)
• Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley.
• We're the home of America's pastime, America's Team, and now the largest participatory sport in America...bowling. (Jay Burress, Arlington, Texas Convention and Visitor's Bureau)
• When bowling, you don't have to join the union to be striking.

Bowling Page Idea

• Draw a straight border around the page with a pen. In the top left corner arrange three bowling pin stickers or die-cuts. Put a bowling ball sticker or die-cut 2 or 3" below the pins on the line you drew.
  In the lower right draw or cut out a bowling pin 5" high and make red strips around the 'neck'.
  Cut out a 2" diameter bowling ball. Use yellow dots for the finger holes or punch out holes. Put the ball slightly overlapping the pin and draw three curved lines coming from the ball onto the pins so it appears the ball is hitting the pin.
  At the end of each line put a small star sticker.
  This is hard to explain but easy to do--just cut the pieces and play around with them.
• Cut bowling pins out of white paper. Mat photos on the large part of the pins.
• Some bowling leagues have newsletters where you can get poems and quotes and clipart ideas.

 
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Songs about Bowling

• Bowling - Jesse Winchester (2005)
• Bowling Alley - John Curtis (2007)
• Bowling Ball - Superchick (2007)
• Bowling for Fun - Tree Adams (2008)
• Bowling Night - Jan Smith (2001)
• Bowling Song - Asleep at the Wheel (2001)
• Bowling With You - Milkshake (2006)
• My Baby Loves to Bowl - Jimmy Soul (1963)

Tennis

Page Toppers

• 40-Love
• Game After Game, I'm Having Fun
  Tennis Players are Number One
• Point-Set-Match
• Tennis Anyone?
• Tennis Begins With Love!
• Tennis is My Racquet
• Tennis Players Have Bounce!
• Tennis Serves My Purpose
• Tennis! You Gotta 'lub' it!

Quotes

• Champions keep playing until they get it right. (Billie Jean King)
• The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall. (Mitch Hedberg)
• I'll let the racket do the talking. (John McEnroe)
• If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment...quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life. (Chris Evert Lloyd)
• A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility. (Billie Jean King on tennis)
• Tennis: a racquet sport in which two players compete to see who has the shortest temper, the worst memory, the poorest eyesight, and the slowest watch.
• Tennis players love getting into the swing of things.
• Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life. (Bill Tilden)
• Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. (Billie Jean King)
• Tennis players have the advantage.
• Tennis players love getting into the swing of things!
• When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win. (Steffi Graf)
• Page Idea: Cut a gold circle in half using a wavy edge ruler and it will look like a tennis ball.

Tennis Strategy

(Arnold J. Zarett)

Though your game is hardly the best
You can fray your opponent's nerves
By methodically bouncing the ball
At least ten times before your serves.

Skating and Skateboarding

It has been many years since I skated and I have never skateboarded so if anyone has suggestions for this section please let me know.

Page Toppers

Quotes and Info

• If the good Lord had intended us to walk he wouldn't have invented roller-skates. (from Willy Wonka)
• Rollerblades were the first commercially successful in-line Roller Skates. Minnesota students Scott and Brennan Olson invented them in 1980, when they were looking for a way to practice Hockey during the off-season. Their design was an ice hockey boot with three inline wheels instead of a blade.
• Things related to ice skating are in the Winter Sports file

Skinny Boxes

(Jackie Kincaid)

Someone's knocking at my door
I leave the mop right on the floor.
Mr. Mark the mailman with a box!
Oh boy, maybe for ME, this rocks!
Return address reads "The West Coast?!"
Oh my word, what I fear most!
It can't be, no!
Tell me it's not true!
Why does he need another one?
I have no clue!
Maybe the old ones are too slow?
Could he hate the pictures on the old decks?
They're boring or scratched, they look like heck?
Maybe they're just not "cool" enough
Actually, I think he just needs more "stuff."
It doesn't matter what the reason
'cause it's not going to stop, no matter the season.
Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall
Skinny boxes, waiting, standing so tall.

Songs about Skating and Skateboarding

• Sidewalk Surfboard - Floyd Robinson (1966)
• Sidewalk Surfin' Scene - The Buddies (1965)
• Skate Board - The Sidewalk Surfers (1965)
• Skate Key - Dante's Inferno (1979)
• Skateaway - Dire Straits (1981)
• Skateboard Craze - Willie and the Wheels (1965)
• Skateboard, U.S.A. - The Buddies (1965)
• Skater's Waltz - Mark O'Connor (1979)