Sports Figure Quotes

Our tactics have always been to equalize before the other team score. Now I think they scored first and then we equalized, but we equalized the second time before they scored.

Danny Blanchflower

Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

Maybe I'm not in the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame like so many of my baseball buddies, but I'm happy I had the chance to play pro ball and am especially proud of my contributions to my country. Perhaps I could not hit like Babe Ruth, but I spoke more languages than he did.

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

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

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

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

But not so odd
As those who choose
A Jewish God,
But spurn the Jews.

I want to go out in my peak. That's my goal. But have I peaked yet?

Serena Williams

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.

It seemed a pity so much Argentinian talent is wasted. Our best football will come against the right type of opposition—a team who come to play football, and not act as animals.

He revolutionised cricket. He turned it from an accomplishment into a science.

K. S. Ranjitsinhji

My first manager's page for Shamrock Rovers, and my, shall I say, reasonably extensive vocabulary is still too confined to express how delighted I feel.

Damien Richardson

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.

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

It was so gnarly, dude, and I'd been on his show a couple times, so I basically figured we were homies. I yelled over to him, and I was like, 'Yo, Reg, what up?' And then get this: He called me the Red Onion! Dude, it was so epic. It was totally rad.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.

Mister, it's my business to get him in trouble.

Sugar Ray Robinson

I threw the kitchen sink at him but he went to the bathroom and got his tub.

When women go to see men strip, we never accuse you of hating men.

If you're not mentally tough,
If nerves undo you instead of focus you,
If you don't have the inner arrogance
That you absolutely have what it takes to win,
If you don't see, in your mind's eye,
A picture of yourself winning - then you won't win;
And not because you can't.

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

It's me versus Mother Nature and me versus me. I want to see how far a human can fly with six kilograms of high-tech nylon over his head with no engine. Ultimately though, I love being able to fly like a bird.

Godfrey Wenness

I never pay attention to individual awards and I think that sometimes, too many people place too much value on them.

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.