Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun"

Sparky Anderson, Coach

"I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain"

Sparky Anderson, Coach

"You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change, it really puts the real in football"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"I played one game, and one game played me"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"Football is not part of that lifestyle anymore"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen, mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood"

Walter Johnson, Athlete

"And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"Never bet on baseball"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"But let me do; I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well, may be this is a future gymnastics"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"Everyday there's something that reminds me why I love this sport"

Bernard Hinault, Athlete

"Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen"

Bobby Rahal, Athlete

"I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country"

David Beckham, Athlete

"Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that"

Bobby Rahal, Athlete

"Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards"

Trent Dilfer, Athlete

"I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet"

Sparky Anderson, Coach

"When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high, I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys"

Catherine Bell, Model

"I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys"

Catherine Bell, Model

"When I was in college, there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

"The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"If I'm going to break them, I'm going to break them both"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"He's a cocky sumbitch. That's what makes him such a great player"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"As players, we always have a way to get back at you"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"But I couldn't live without creation gymnastics"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"Most of the games don't let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I've been watching these girls"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

"You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"Anyway, I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"My running was very simple; it was out of myself"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

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