Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned"

Lawrence Taylor, 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

"I played golf all over Detroit"

Smokey Robinson, Musician

"Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

"Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

"If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

"I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

"And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

"In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to!"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind"

Tom Watson

"And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"Golf will grow so long as it's fun"

Tom Watson

"There are very few courses around Detroit, I haven't played"

Smokey Robinson, Musician

"I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling"

Bernard Hinault, Athlete

"The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages"

Esther Williams, Actress

"We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much"

Tom Watson

"We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"I have never had problems sleeping the night before a race"

Bobby Rahal, Athlete

"Village cricket spread fast through the land"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe"

David Beckham, Athlete

"I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing"

David Beckham, Athlete

"In 1982, when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight"

Bobby Rahal, Athlete

"There's a tremendous number of the Daytona Prototypes"

Bobby Rahal, Athlete

"I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you get that feedback very quickly"

Bobby Rahal, Athlete

"Today, the competition is considerably more intense"

Bobby Rahal, Athlete

"Competitiveness has been a big thing for me"

Bobby Rahal, Athlete

"I have a strong tennis arm"

Bess Truman, First Lady

"You were not in control, You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport it's the long-term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"In 1980, I finished three or four times in seventh place"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"I remember in the first part of the race I was sixth and I could have gone quicker, but I had to go slow. It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done"

Alain Prost, Celebrity

"I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected"

Roger Staubach, Athlete

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