Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person"

Michelle Wie, Athlete

"We're all just playing our own game. I don't see it as a rivalry. We're just trying to play our best"

Michelle Wie, Athlete

"I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head"

Dizzy Dean, Athlete

"All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it"

Dizzy Dean, Athlete

"Without the ball, you can't win"

Johan Cruijff, Athlete

"Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them"

Johan Cruijff, Athlete

"Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth"

Dizzy Dean, Athlete

"I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr. Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games"

Dizzy Dean, Athlete

"Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world"

Dizzy Dean, Athlete

"A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance"

Branch Rickey, Athlete

"How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer"

Branch Rickey, Athlete

"Baseball is a game of inches"

Branch Rickey, Athlete

"I've never really had a favorite player, past or present"

Magnus Carlsen

"I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me, and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style"

Magnus Carlsen

"Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head"

Magnus Carlsen

"Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport"

Magnus Carlsen

"Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles"

Chi Chi Rodriguez, Athlete

"For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes!"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs"

Tommy Lasorda, Coach

"I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky"

Tommy Lasorda, Coach

"When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot"

Tommy Lasorda, Coach

"The receivers are an integral part of the passing game"

Hank Stram, Athlete

"When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it"

Mark Spitz, Athlete

"I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program"

Mark Spitz, Athlete

"I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee, and the Indians are in the sea"

Navjot Singh Sidhu, Entertainer

"I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies"

Serena Williams, Athlete

"Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions"

Serena Williams, Athlete

"I do love cricket - it's so very English"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack"

Navjot Singh Sidhu, Entertainer

"The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy"

Mark Spitz, Athlete

"My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years, and I don't go to games"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the Final Four"

Chris Rock, Comedian

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