American Sports Figure Quotes

Muhammad Ali

Bruce Lee

Michael Jordan

Magic Johnson

Serena Williams

Michael Phelps

Tiger Woods

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Christy Mathewson

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event

Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.

When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

The man to beat me hasn't been born yet.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years, and I have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day?

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

Steve Prefontaine

Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).

In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in the coaching of athletics.

Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn't something to shrug off.

How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he?