American Sports Figure Quotes

Fame is almost a poison. I couldn't care less, in fact I lived better when I was a nobody.

In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

I feel that I deserve to hear just some words to justify the actions of an organization that I have honored and promoted every day of my nearly 30-year existence in it.

When someone is fearless, when pain isn't a factor, it's impossible to break his spirit.

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

On facing Southpaw Sandy Koufax

Willie Stargell

True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.

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

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.

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.

My uniqueness reveals something of Christ that no one else does.

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

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.

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.

As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.

Dominique Moceanu

Inside each of us dwells a more-perfect self waiting to unfold. It cries loudly for release, yet it is sometimes ignored. To answer its call, you must take time to listen.

Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.

I threw the kitchen sink at him but he went to the bathroom and got his tub.

Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun. If you do take it seriously, it will break your heart.

Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.

I can't speak for any fifteen million people any more than any other person can, but I know that I've got too much invested for my wife and child and myself in the future of this country, and I and other Americans of many races and faiths have too much invested in our country's welfare for any of us to throw it away because of a siren song sung in bass.

Jackie Robinson

All the big sportswriters seemed to enjoy writing about me as an ignorant cotton-mill boy with nothing but lint where my brains ought to be. That was all right with me. I was able to fool a lot of pitchers and managers and club owners I wouldn't have been able to fool if they'd thought I was smarter.

Shoeless Joe Jackson

Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population—and usually as homosexuals.

Billie Jean King

Mister, it's my business to get him in trouble.

Sugar Ray Robinson

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