Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"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

"We need a hit, so here I go"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

"I was born to play baseball"

Roberto Clemente, Athlete

"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

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

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"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

"Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"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

"I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well"

Murray Walker, Entertainer

"A battle is developing between them. I say developing, because it's not yet on"

Murray Walker, Entertainer

"You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church"

Bill Lee, Athlete

"For kids it's natural to be competitive"

Daley Thompson, 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

"The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me"

Larry Bird, Coach

"Forget your opponents; always play against par"

Sam Snead, Athlete

"Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one"

Daley Thompson, Athlete

"Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them"

Daley Thompson, Athlete

Peter Shilton, Athlete

"If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body"

Roberto Clemente, Athlete

"To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment"

Sam Snead, Athlete

"But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever"

Larry Bird, Coach

"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

"Golf is played with the arms"

Sam Snead, Athlete

"I'm a ballplayer, not an actor"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

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

Joe DiMaggio, 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

"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

"Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

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