American Sports Figure Quotes

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.

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.

[German head coach Uwe Krupp] is asking his guys to basically be fire hydrants and they're getting peed on right now.

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.

Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

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?

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

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?"

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

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.

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

The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What's the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?

Martina Navratilova

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

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.