Sports Figure Quotes

True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.

We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.

If you aren't willing to face your demons-if you can't find the courage to take on your fear and hurt and anger-you might as well wrap them up with a bow and give them to your children. Because they will be carrying the same thing...unless you are willing to do the work

When you struggle, that's when you realize what you're made of, and that's when you realize what the people around you can do. You learn who you'd want to take with you to a war, and who you'd only want to take to lunch.

Chamique Holdsclaw

So I step into the future, as bravely as I'm able, with my heart longing for a time I'll never see again.

Ekaterina Gordeeva

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

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

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!'

You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.

Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

You've got so much ice on your hands I could skate on them.

To Liberace

It's not my fault Snow didn't have any other options coming out of high school. If going to college gets you a career backup goaltender job, and my route gets you a thousand points and a thousand games, and compare the two contracts, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out whose decision was better.

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.

Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.

She's got space. Lots of space in her house. What about in her heart?

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

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

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside.

Reporter: Welcome to Southampton Football Club. Do you think you are the right man to turn things around?
Strachan: No. I was asked if I thought I was the right man for the job and I said, "No, I think they should have got George Graham because I'm useless."

Gordon Strachan

I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.

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.

On his move to Paris Saint-Germain:

I want to write history here. This is the only reason. There are new challenges, and I want to help write the history of the club. Our biggest challenge is the Champions League, but there are other trophies too.