Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"I watch a lot of baseball on the radio"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!"

Harry Caray, Entertainer

"Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast"

Joe Garagiola, Athlete

"The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it"

Jackie Robinson, Athlete

"I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench"

Sparky Anderson, Coach

"Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me, and I think that's great"

Lisa Leslie, Athlete

"Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour"

Pat Cash, Athlete

"It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples"

Juan Antonio Samaranch, Celebrity

"This match is about sport, and I separate that completely from politics"

Oliver Kahn, Athlete

"I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor"

Bob Lilly, Athlete

"It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete, and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication"

Herb Elliott, Athlete

"Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against"

Bill Walton, Athlete

"Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time"

Curtis Joseph, Athlete

"The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"Serious sport is war minus the shooting"

George Orwell, Author

"I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"I always thought that record would stand until it was broken"

Yogi Berra, Athlete

"I'm for a drug-free sport and always will be"

Marion Jones, Athlete

"I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be"

Marion Jones, Athlete

"In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever"

Marion Jones, Athlete

"Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs, and they never will"

Marion Jones, Athlete

"The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records, and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA"

Marion Jones, Athlete

"I'm a jock and I'm an athlete, and that's what I love to do"

Marion Jones, Athlete

"I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games"

Marion Jones, Athlete

"I've set no world record"

Marion Jones, Athlete

"There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me"

Michael Phelps, Athlete

"Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home"

Michael Phelps, Athlete

"Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz"

Michael Phelps, Athlete

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