Sports Quotes

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

Your adrenaline starts to go when the market opens in the morning. It's like sports programming.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

I don't think I ever knew just how great it can feel to push your body past its limits, and running is a great way to do it. In fact, the harder I train, the more awesome the after-effects!

I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them.

I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.

I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.

I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.

Even now, I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what ifs' and dreams of gold medals. That way, no matter what happens, you win.

Ray Lewis is the type of guy, if he were in a fight with a bear I wouldn't help him, I'd pour honey on him because he likes to fight. That's the type of guy Ray Lewis is.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.

My favorite sports movies, I like 'Remember the Titans' and 'Hoosiers' Jimmy Chitwood, from the corner.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.

I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'

I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.

Problem with (John) Wockenfuss getting on base is that it takes three doubles to score him.

I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.

The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.

We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

The Immaculate Reception became the Zapruder Film of sports.

The guys have a lot of good cars built up. We're going to do some more testing before we go back to Las Vegas and try to win at Vegas again. We need to get off to a quick start.

I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general.

Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.

Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.

When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.

You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don't match.

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.

It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.