Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

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"In baseball, you don't know nothing"

Yogi Berra, Athlete

Yogi Berra

"Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners"

John Steinbeck, Author

John Steinbeck

"Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength"

Sid Waddell, Entertainer

Sid Waddell

"I always get very calm with baseball"

Paul Simon, Musician

Paul Simon

"One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

Mike Tyson

"Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

Mike Tyson

"I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

Mike Tyson

"I love to hit people. I love to"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

Mike Tyson

"I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

Mike Tyson

"I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

Mike Tyson

"I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them!"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

Mike Tyson

"I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

Babe Ruth

"Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

Babe Ruth

"As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

Babe Ruth

"All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know, except it looked good"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

Babe Ruth

"In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

Pierre de Coubertin

"The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

Pierre de Coubertin

"The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

Pierre de Coubertin

"Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

Pierre de Coubertin

"For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

Pierre de Coubertin

"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

Pierre de Coubertin

"The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

Pierre de Coubertin

"The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

Pierre de Coubertin

"In no way can sport be considered a luxury object"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

Pierre de Coubertin

"A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

Pierre de Coubertin

"Swifter, higher, stronger"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

Pierre de Coubertin

"I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players, and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

Andy Rooney

"Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but it's good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

Andy Rooney

"The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do"

Ring Lardner, Comedian

Ring Lardner

"Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

Ayrton Senna

"I was already on pole, then by half a second, and then one second, and I just kept going. Suddenly, I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

Ayrton Senna

"I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up"

Jesse Owens, Athlete

Jesse Owens

"And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"Tennis has given me soul"

Martina Navratilova, Athlete

Martina Navratilova

"I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football, the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today"

Gerald R. Ford, President

Gerald R. Ford

"It was all I lived for, to play baseball"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

Mickey Mantle

"As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

Mickey Mantle

"When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But when I'm hitting, I hit anybody"

Willie Mays, Athlete

Willie Mays

"When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it"

Willie Mays, Athlete

Willie Mays

"When I got to professional ball, I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was"

Willie Mays, Athlete

Willie Mays

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