Sports Figure Quotes

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.

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

Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of accomplishment in living, and the depth of insight into beauty and truth; these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.

Virat gave more than 100 per cent against Australia to take India into semifinals. I haven't seen anybody as composed as Virat Kohli under pressure. He is beyond phenomenal. He is the best limited overs batsman

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

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

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

If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I don't care. Afterward I say, 'Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.

Derek Sanderson

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!'

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.

I would like to announce my retirement from international and domestic first-class cricket. It is 16 years since I played my first Test match for India and today I feel it is an time to move on. Once I was like every other boy in India, with a dream of playing for my country. Yet I could never have imagined a journey so long and so fulfilling

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

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.

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

The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

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

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

Because I grew up playing for Roma and I want to die playing for Roma, because I have always been a Roma's fan!

Francesco Totti

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.