Sports Figure Quotes

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.

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong

I think when you're trying to improve, the most important thing is to always have a plan.

Admiting to using steroids:

It is with a great amount of shame that I stand before you and tell you that I have betrayed your trust. I want you to know that I have been dishonest and you have the right to be angry with me. I have let them [my family] down, I have let my country down and I have let myself down.

I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.

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.

If one-day cricket was pyjama cricket, then Twenty20 is underwear cricket.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Winning doesn't come cheaply … you have to pay a big price.

Jeev Milkha Singh

I have never started a fight in my life but I have finished a few... sometimes I shudder when I think about what I have done.

Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.

It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today.

The basketball is a tool that the black [man] has now, same as maybe once he had a plow. He can use it to make something of himself and make a life for his children.

The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are made on the far end of the public driving range by guys who couldn't break an egg with a baseball bat.

We are blessed with a spirit that is one with the spirit of the universe. This spirit is called "reiseishin". The moon is clearly reflected in the water when the water is calm. In the same way when our mind and body are unified and calm, our "reiseishin" manifests itself completely. Once this happens all suffering and wicked desires fall away, and the universal spirit of love and protection for all things appears in us. Let us strive to realise our "reiseishin".

We had nonbelievers all along the way, and I have one thing to say to those nonbelievers: Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion!

Rudy Tomjanovich

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

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

Nadia Comăneci

We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.

Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population—and usually as homosexuals.

Billie Jean King

Stadiums fill up with people to see what's going to happen between the lines. But life isn't only about visible realities. There are invisible and unseen nuances...things that shape us into who we are.

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.

In a dojo... you will never become any good unless you believe in yourself.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

You always expect to do well at a club like this in big competitions and we haven't done that. That is a disappointment to the newcomers like me who haven't tasted success here and also to those who've been here longer and won things in the past. We have to address that.

Edwin van der Sar

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.