Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"There is no pressure on me, I can take a lot of risks in the coming weeks. I feel free to ski the way I decide on race-day because the overall title was not my main target this winter"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school"

Bobby Sherman, Musician

"Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

"All pitchers are born pitchers"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

"I'm a ballplayer, not an actor"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

"I think there are some players born to play ball"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

"My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"Athletics is a luxury"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season, which is also quite interesting"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best"

Althea Gibson, Athlete

"Hockey is a tough game"

Bobby Orr, Athlete

"Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on, and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble"

Bobby Orr, Athlete

"I want to inspire young girls to get into sports, to break their own boundaries, to use their voice"

Eileen Gu, Athlete

"That’s a really big thing to me, visualizing tricks by the rhythm of the wind in my ears"

Eileen Gu, Athlete

"My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game"

Duffy Daugherty, Coach

"Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot"

Sam Snead, Athlete

"I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American"

Larry Bird, Coach

"As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game"

Larry Bird, Coach

"There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be"

Peter Shilton, Athlete

"Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away"

Sam Snead, Athlete

"In F1, too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics"

Kimi Raikkonen, Celebrity

"The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening"

Stefan Edberg, Athlete

"I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there"

Stefan Edberg, Athlete

"I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible, all of the people coming out"

Stefan Edberg, Athlete

"I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that"

Duffy Daugherty, Coach

"For kids it's natural to be competitive"

Daley Thompson, Athlete

"I don't know why I run so fast. I just run"

Wilma Rudolph, Athlete

"As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid"

Irvin S. Cobb, Journalist

"When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball"

Larry Bird, Coach

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