Sports Quotes

When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire.

I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.

I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it.

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

I didn't come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me.

You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

October: that's when they pay off for playing ball.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare 'entertainment.' It's not 'entertainment.' It's culture.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.

I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here.

Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered

Well, Rickey's not one of them, so that's 49 percent right there.

In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.

I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.

If you don't start, it is certain you won't arrive.

Surfing is real private. It's a solo, loner sport.

If you want to be successful in the gym, in the classroom, in college or when you get out and go into the world of work, that is going to be determined by how hard you are willing to work.

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.

But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

You know no one ever accomplishes something like this without a lot of help from good people along the way. And this is certainly true in my case, and I would like to thank some of those people.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin

I've been very fortunate. I feel very thankful. I've been able to come home and do some fun things and make it exciting for people here at home

Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals.

You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

In high school, I didn't get the chance to wrestle varsity until my senior year because I had an older brother who was better than me.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

I was in awe every time I walked on to the field

I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do – play it right and with respect.

If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit-and-run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light on the dugout camera.