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"For the most part, I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do"
Shannon Miller, Athlete
"Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear"
Shannon Miller, Athlete
"At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country"
Shannon Miller, Athlete
"Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that"
Shannon Miller, Athlete
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams"
Jacques Barzun, Educator
"It's true, I always try to be as seductive as possible, but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis"
Anna Kournikova, Athlete
"I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies"
Anna Kournikova, Athlete
"When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football"
Mike Krzyzewski, Coach
"The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players"
Anna Kournikova, Athlete
"When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?"
Anna Kournikova, Athlete
"The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time"
Anatoly Karpov, Celebrity
"We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors"
Anatoly Karpov, Celebrity
"When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis"
Anna Kournikova, Athlete
"There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me"
Anna Kournikova, Athlete
"I just play for fun"
Anna Kournikova, Athlete
"First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control"
Anatoly Karpov, Celebrity
"After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess, which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired"
Anatoly Karpov, Celebrity
"Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it"
Mike Krzyzewski, Coach
"I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either"
Harold Pinter, Playwright
"Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school"
Mike Krzyzewski, Coach
"I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education"
Angela Merkel, Statesman
"I am not an expert in this field, but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely"
Angela Merkel, Statesman
"It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day, however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes"
Angela Merkel, Statesman
"I surfed competitively from age 13 to 18. Every day, before and after school. I wanted to surf for the rest of my life. It's what all my friends did - I even had it as a subject in school for a number of years"
Liam Hemsworth, Actor
"What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning"
Jennifer Capriati, Athlete
"It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards"
Jennifer Capriati, Athlete
"I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me"
Jennifer Capriati, Athlete
"I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players"
Jennifer Capriati, Athlete
"As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman"
Lynn Davies, Athlete
"There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way"
Lynn Davies, Athlete
"Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes"
Knute Rockne, Coach
"This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality"
Payne Stewart, Athlete
"It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it"
Knute Rockne, Coach
"The cast clubs were a big part of it, too. I found I wasn't getting that instant feedback I was used to with a forged blade. The sweet spot is a shade bigger, and when I didn't hit the ball dead center, I didn't know it, because it still felt great!"
Payne Stewart, Athlete
"The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long"
Payne Stewart, Athlete
"Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control, one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough"
Payne Stewart, Athlete
"Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table"
Don Shula, Coach
"Anybody that's a Dolphins fan feels they're headed in the right direction"
Don Shula, Coach
"I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn't take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next"
Jimmy Connors, Athlete
"Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll"
Jimmy Connors, Athlete
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