20th-century Sports Figure Quotes

My first manager's page for Shamrock Rovers, and my, shall I say, reasonably extensive vocabulary is still too confined to express how delighted I feel.

Damien Richardson

If my goals and victories can help the world remember Chernobyl and bring a smile to the face of the people still suffering then I dedicate all my success to them.

Andriy Shevchenko

I have had a couple of options through my career to go to Real Madrid but I resisted temptation because of the feeling I had for my hometown club. It might be something I regret down the line for not challenging myself and experiencing another country but I would have had an even bigger regret leaving Liverpool. I had a great admiration for Madrid but for me Liverpool is my No 1 club.

You always expect to do well at a club like this in big competitions and we haven't done that. That is a disappointment to the newcomers like me who haven't tasted success here and also to those who've been here longer and won things in the past. We have to address that.

Edwin van der Sar

Of course! We have a great team, great players, and in football, it's everything possible.

About Arsenal's chances of winning the Premiership

They're gonna write that I'm a fag and the people is gonna believe it

Juan Román Riquelme

In the west, we have probably hit peak stuff. We talk about peak oil. I'd say we've hit peak red meat, peak sugar, peak stuff… peak home furnishings.

Football gives the African people hope, a true motivation for their life.

Marcel Desailly

Be the mountain / be the ocean / be the tree / be happy / be the light / be the shadow / be the rain / be you / be

I'm going back to my tour where I belong. The attention was more than I expected. The golf course wasn't a problem. It was just the things around it. All the preparation I've done in the last month weighed on me.

Annika Sörenstam

On his Caucasian, Black American, American Indian, Thai, and Chinese ancestry:

Growing up, I came up with this name: I'm a "Cablinasian."

You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart.

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

I've seen enough crazy shots to know they happen in the best of families.

The things I knew I could do, I tried to master. The things I knew I couldn't do, I never tried.

The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are made on the far end of the public driving range by guys who couldn't break an egg with a baseball bat.

I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.

Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.

I think when you're trying to improve, the most important thing is to always have a plan.

Faldo has lost a lot of respect from players because of what he said.

Faith is a gateway to happiness that remains permanently accessible to each of us, wherever we are, no matter our circumstances.

Mary Lou Retton

Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work hard when they don't want to, when it's inconvenient to give it that little extra effort... and that extra effort might be just what they need to place them on top.