Sports Figure Quotes

I'm not the best, I'm just a guy who's willing to fight the best.

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.

I could become a Gold Glove-caliber shortstop. Not as talented as Vizquel, but definitely on par with Jeter.

I never wanted to play for any other country but Australia. I learned my football in Australia. I'm Australian.

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

So, life is like, again, an icy ladder. So, when you climb up, you have to be really, really energetic or you won't be able to climb up 'cause you slip and fall down.

Stanislav Pozdniakov

Push hands is practiced between two people: the intitiator and the one acted upon. Initiating is called 'asking'. The person acted upon 'answers'. When the opponent asks, listen first before answering.

Most kids today slap the puck. The backhand takes time to learn. It's not something you do naturally. But it is an effective shot.

I'm born in Britain – but my family were born in Pakistan. When I fight, in the crowd you see Pakistani people and you see British people – they're all mixed together and they support Amir Khan. On my shorts, when I fight, I have the Pakistani flag on one side and on the other side I have the Britain flag – to promote the two countries together.

You can't fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive.

A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.

The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.

I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes.

I would not be the player I am today without him, I would not have improved without my dad. In the early years, he would have me over the park training when everyone else was at home or playing with their mates, I was jumping on the floor, getting up and running again, sprinting - I will never forget that. I thank him for everything he has done in my football life and for being a dad.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.

George was a fantastic player and he would have been even better if he'd been able to pass nightclubs the way he passed the ball.

On George Best's drinking

Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it.

I am happy at Newcastle. I love the city and the people. Our fans are the best in the world. Even if we are losing or not playing well there are still 52,000 backing us and I respect that.
also he grew up in orile, lagos Nigeria

Obafemi Martins

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.

Your body is just like a bar of soap. It gradually wears down from repeated use.

He's an emotional guy, but I don't believe what went on the field tonight outside of baseball deserves any words.

Carlos Zambrano

Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.

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