American Sports Figure Quotes

It's the mind that makes everything else work.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas.... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.

Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. You are what you eat. If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger.

If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?

I've seen enough crazy shots to know they happen in the best of families.

There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving game does.

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.

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

I'm in better condition [after going vegan]. My endurance has gone up, and I haven't gotten tired at all during the whole season. … I don't think you should eat something that had a mother.

Salim Stoudamire

To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift from book to book, you're lulled into thinking that this lack of focus is right and natural - but it's as wrong as can be. Some serendipity in your reading is delightful, but if you wanted to build a house, would you wait for the materials to assemble themselves? - Steve Leveen

Pat Williams (basketball)

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

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

As a champion, you carry an air of invincibility... folks see you as bigger than life. When you lose, though, they feel as though they'd been fooled, suckered into thinking so highly of you; that's why folks jump off that bandwagon quick as can be, and then throw stones at it.

I used to think that my career was to be a police officer, and that is what I was put here to do. But I always kept the faith and always worked hard on my goals and I finally found out on Sept. 25, 1998, why I was put here - (God) called me here to be Mr. Olympia.

I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.

Billy Graham (wrestler)

As you get old you have to train smarter. Every young guy goes through it; every young guy says I'm invincible, it will never happen to me. The body is like a car or machine, you work it so often that eventually it's going to break down.

Let the gym be a sanctuary for you to be at peace. Let it calm you and ground you and allow you to appreciate everything around you. Let it also be a place for you to unload and explode with intensity through your training.

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

Sugar Ray Robinson

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

After defeating Lou Savarese

Evander Holyfield