American Sports Figure Quotes

On his Caucasian, Black American, American Indian, Thai, and Chinese ancestry:

Growing up, I came up with this name: I'm a "Cablinasian."

You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.

Only losers and amateurs blame the cards. After all, cards don't care; they don't take sides, and they have no memory. They are blind justice holding her scales, and in the long run they'll tip evenly for the novice and the skilled alike.

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.

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

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

I knew that if I kept the pressure on and didn't do anything stupid I would probably win.

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

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

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

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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.

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

Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.

Herbert Warren Wind

I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.

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

The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are made on the far end of the public driving range by guys who couldn't break an egg with a baseball bat.

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.

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

Alex J. Morrison

Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.

Suzanne Yoculan

Faith is a gateway to happiness that remains permanently accessible to each of us, wherever we are, no matter our circumstances.

Mary Lou Retton

Mentally speaking, it sucks, man. Who wants to prepare their whole life and have it all taken away by some guy who just made a bad pass? But that's the beauty of the sport as well. Anything can happen.

Apolo Anton Ohno

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

Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work hard when they don't want to, when it's inconvenient to give it that little extra effort... and that extra effort might be just what they need to place them on top.

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