Sports Quotes

One of my favorite movies of all time is Fargo.

My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.

The only way to stop Jim Brown was to give him a movie contract.

You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.

Your longevity in the sport is governed by how you live in between the fights.

I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

We've gotten so much as a result of the changes. Part of our responsibility is to give something back to the game and the girls who are just starting to play.

I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.

[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.

If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.

I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.

Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.

Hockey is not a sport - it's a disease.

I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport.

I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor.

It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that's fun.

You don't get lucky in sport.

Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.

There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world's best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.

Maybe they hate me because I'm too good!

I would be very proud if, one day, I'm held in the same esteem as George Best or Beckham. It's what I'm working hard towards.

But I don't want to be compared to anyone like to impose my own style of play and do the best for myself and for the club here.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.

I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.

I remember Terry being exhausted from his latest Super Bowl win and all the things that go with it.

First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.

It looks like I have a thing for dangerous sports, don't I?

Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.

But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.

All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.

People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.

All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me.