American Sports Figure Quotes

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities—patience, poise, restraint—to the flame.

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

After defeating Lou Savarese

Evander Holyfield

My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.

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

Sugar Ray Robinson

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.

As long as capital-both human and money-can move toward opportunity, trade will not balance.

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.

We lost a place, but my daughter was born at the same time. We were taking care of her in Los Angeles, because there's a tradition that you don't travel with a newborn. To give their body a chance to acclimate. So, literally, we were lying in bed, and my sister called me and said, 'Turn on the TV.' Our daughter's lying there between us, and I looked over at my lady and said, 'Baby, our place is gone!' I just turned to my daughter and started kissing her. 'That's why you came, my girl. You saved our lives… you're a lifesaver!'

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.

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

Bernard Hopkins

I found out Scott (Brown) is anti-union and I'm a Teamster guy. I found out he's also against gay marriage, and I say if you love someone, you should have the same rights no matter who you are.

I respect Floyd as a fighter but come 5 May, he's going to be hurting for weeks.

Oscar De La Hoya

I don't like Marvin. Never have and never will. I just want to tell you something. Get there early and sit tight. Don't blink. You might miss the fight.

She clawed in bits of glass and brick,
Then lifted out a shoe.
"O, here's the shoe my baby wore
But, baby, where are you?"

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.

When women go to see men strip, we never accuse you of hating men.

Some of us are fortunate enough to play championship golf, but this isn't essential in the enjoyment of the game.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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

No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into pieces. I felt sorry for my mom and wanted her to know everything was going to be all right. But then she said, 'I don't really care, Johnny, as long as I know that you are going to be happy.'

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

Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.

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

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.

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

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.