American Sports Figure Quotes

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

Success may result in winning, but winning does not necessarily mean you are a success.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

At Flushing Meadow

It was so gnarly, dude, and I'd been on his show a couple times, so I basically figured we were homies. I yelled over to him, and I was like, 'Yo, Reg, what up?' And then get this: He called me the Red Onion! Dude, it was so epic. It was totally rad.

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

After defeating Lou Savarese

Evander Holyfield

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.

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

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

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

Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.

Kristi Yamaguchi

If you're not mentally tough,
If nerves undo you instead of focus you,
If you don't have the inner arrogance
That you absolutely have what it takes to win,
If you don't see, in your mind's eye,
A picture of yourself winning - then you won't win;
And not because you can't.

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

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

The basketball is a tool that the black [man] has now, same as maybe once he had a plow. He can use it to make something of himself and make a life for his children.

The scoreboard said I lost today, but what the scoreboard doesn't say is what it is I have found. Over the last 21 years, I have found loyalty. You have pulled for me on the court and also in life. I found inspiration. You have willed me to succeed, sometimes even in my lowest moments, and I've found generosity. You have given me your shoulders to stand on to reach for my dreams, dreams I could never have reached without you.

I got the rebound and he tackled me. I know this is Sunday, but this is the wrong field.

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

On his reception by other players when he returned from retirement to an All-Star game:

It was the first game ever called on account of hugs.

I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.

Winston Bennett

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

Billie Jean King

You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.

Alex J. Morrison

You create shots for yourself by what you do without the ball more than what you do after you get it