Sports Quotes

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then you smash them back!

I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.

They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.

You must have a dragon hidden inside you. When you need, you let the dragon out.

I told you all I was going to be No. 1, and I did just that.

You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

They are who we thought they were!

The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.