American Sports Figure Quotes

Admiting to using steroids:

It is with a great amount of shame that I stand before you and tell you that I have betrayed your trust. I want you to know that I have been dishonest and you have the right to be angry with me. I have let them [my family] down, I have let my country down and I have let myself down.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

Trying to hit him was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.

On facing Southpaw Sandy Koufax

Willie Stargell

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

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).

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.

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.

At its most basic root, the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality.

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

It's strange. I always dream I win a grand slam When I wake up, it's a nightmare. Now that I've got it, I don't have to wake up like that anymore.

I feel in an executioner mood, I am going to punish him and punish him slowly.

Bernard Hopkins

No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.

Base stealing for me is another sport all by itself. It's a game within a game. I'm the mouse and the cats are trying to trap me.

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.

When Fernando [Lamas] proposed to me, he said, 'Let me take you away from all this.' And I said, 'Away from all what? I'm a movie star!'

Esther Williams

Negro women, no less than white women, must be prepared for the responsibilities of citizenship if they are to discharge their duties to the government under which they live and if they are to be capable of watching intelligently their own interests, and of using their ballot in preserving and promoting these interests.

Lucy Diggs Slowe

I will not quit until I am a five-times world champion.

After defeating Lou Savarese

Evander Holyfield

Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don't want to be that guy who quits in the ring.

Forrest Griffin

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.

He was over at my house every day between fifth grade and eighth grade.

We have to protect our minds and our bodies and not just go out and do what the world wants us to do [...] We're not just athletes, we're people at the end of the day and sometimes you just have to step back.

On withdrawing from competition at Tokyo Olympics

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.

I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.