Sports Quotes

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.

I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses.

We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.

I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.

Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

Through Biblical times, there have been great women warriors and now the sport is so populated that these are the women warriors that we have today in boxing, kickboxing, and MMA.

And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league.

The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.

I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.

After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.

When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.

Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.

I don't really care what's going on I just care about getting my job done the best that I can possibly do and deal with the other things in my life that take a lot of time and a lot of thought.

I really believe this team has a lot of potential - whether it's this year or in years to come, I don't know.

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.

You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight.

I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.

I really believe the only thing you can control in those situations is what you do as a player but also how you interact with your teammates, which is critical.

Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.

I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.

The ninth grade. I went from 5'9 to 6'8.

An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.

Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.

As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

This is what makes sports so amazing, that we can start a discussion around a table, in the newspaper, in the magazines, that will get people's attention. And that's what sports does.