Sports Figure Quotes

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

As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.

Dominique Moceanu

I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.

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

There is surely nothing other than the purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do and nothing else to pursue. We should live by being true to the purpose of each moment.

Rati Tsiteladze

I'm in better condition [after going vegan]. My endurance has gone up, and I haven't gotten tired at all during the whole season. … I don't think you should eat something that had a mother.

Salim Stoudamire

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.

I didn't fully realize it then, but that was the thing I was most trying to earn playing baseball. Not money. Not glory... Love.

Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

Your body is just like a bar of soap. It gradually wears down from repeated use.

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport—you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

I just told [Ali] to stay calm. Remember that you've got more time than you think. In this format of the game the bowlers are under more pressure than you are. Stay nice and relaxed. Thankfully he managed to get us across the line.

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

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

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

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.

Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the human condition. The animals could do very well without us, but we cannot do without them.

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

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.