20th-century Sports Figure Quotes

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities—patience, poise, restraint—to the flame.

Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.

Herbert Warren Wind

Winning doesn't come cheaply … you have to pay a big price.

Jeev Milkha Singh

Golf is the most brilliant game ever invented! What other game could turn seemingly intelligent and sane people into complete lunatics in a matter of seconds?

Jesper Parnevik

I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.

Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated as such. Stay loose.

Chi-Chi Rodríguez

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.

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

She's got space. Lots of space in her house. What about in her heart?

Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.

Suzanne Yoculan

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

Mary Lou Retton

I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.

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.

The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

Nadia Comăneci

Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.

I hated the easy assumption that girls had to be slower than boys.

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

I didn't have to act in 'Tarzan, the Ape Man'—just said, 'Me Tarzan, you Jane.'

Johnny Weissmuller

A publisher's view:

It's just called 'The Bible' now. We dropped the word 'Holy' to give it a more mass-market appeal.

I knew now that I had to stand up and start speaking about protecting our environment. From that moment on, every swim should have the aim of inspiring people to protect and preserve the world's oceans and all that live in them.