# Quote — Pat Conroy, The Great Santini

> Sports show you your limits. Sports teach humility. Sooner or later the athlete becomes humble no matter how good he is. But he plays until he has reached as high as he can.

- Author: [Pat Conroy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy.md)
- Book: [The Great Santini](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/the-great-santini.md)
- Page: 468
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pat_Conroy#The_Great_Santini_(1976)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/the-great-santini/sports-show-you

## More from this book

> The full moon hung low, a fresh coin that threw its silver grandly on the water in a ribbon that dazzled for a thousand miles.

p. 143 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/the-great-santini/the-full-moon.md)

> Always believe in things and people that bring you pleasure. What good does it do to throw those things out the window?

p. 376 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/the-great-santini/always-believe-in-things.md)

> I've never had anybody's approval, so I've learned to live without it.

p. 240 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/the-great-santini/ive-never-had.md)