Sports Figure Quotes

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.
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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.

The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

Nadia Comăneci

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

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.

One night I was in the players' parking lot at the Fleet Center in my Celtics warm-ups about a half hour before a game, waiting for one of my dealers to come up from Fall River, because if I didn't get my stuff I was too sick to even go through the pre-game layup line, never mind actually play in the game.

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.

To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift from book to book, you're lulled into thinking that this lack of focus is right and natural - but it's as wrong as can be. Some serendipity in your reading is delightful, but if you wanted to build a house, would you wait for the materials to assemble themselves? - Steve Leveen

Pat Williams (basketball)

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

People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.

No perfumes, but very fine linen, plenty of it, and country washing.

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.

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.

I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.

Some guys smoke. Some guys drink. Some guys chase women.
I'm a big barbecue-sauce guy.

No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.

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!

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.

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

At its most basic root, the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality.

Training, a lot of the time, is just uncomfortable. But discipline is all about doing the thing that's uncomfortable.

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