Sports Figure Quotes

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.

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.

How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he?

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.

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

Carlos Zambrano

If you try to win, you might lose, but if you don't try to win, you lose for sure!

A good Judoka never anticipates his action in a match, but his mind is as clever as a polished mirror which enables him to foresee precisely anything to happen and he displays freedom of his physique to cope with any change. Such mental state and physical action are called sei or tranquility and do or action, sometimes they are called ju and go or tenderness and sturdiness, in and yo or negative and positive, etc.

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

There are no chasms in science, and so long as knowledge is man's knowledge, it is one. The world is not made in compartments answering to university lectureships.

George Sandeman

To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

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.

The research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

It's all about discipline - and having an inner calm. That's one of the main driving forces for me when I step into the ring - you can't have a fight and lose your temper. You need to remain calm and focused when everything around you is in chaos. It's a similar thing for the buddhists - they remain calm and disciplined in the hurly burly of everyday life.

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

At first it is impossible for the novice to cast aside the minor symptoms, which the patient emphasizes as his major ones, and to perceive clearly that one or two facts that have been belittled in the narration of the story of the illness are in reality the stalk about which everything in the case must be made to cluster.

In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss; they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.

Mike Krzyzewski

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

Home plate is home plate regardless where you play. It don't move.

You don't have to be crazy to be a goalie, but it helps!

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

Faldo has lost a lot of respect from players because of what he said.

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.

Being a Christian doesn't mean that our struggles are necessarily different from those of non-Christians; it's just that our solution to the struggles is different.

Bobby Richardson

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