Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck"

Roger Staubach, Athlete

"I was born to play baseball"

Roberto Clemente, Athlete

"The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"There's always something special when the service academies play each other that's not in any other game. This is not a regular game, and everyone involved knows that"

Roger Staubach, Athlete

"Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return"

Marvin Olasky, Educator

"The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in, 8 years ago"

Natalie Gulbis, Athlete

"It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so"

Natalie Gulbis, Athlete

"That fat speed that I love, that sensation, that's what I want"

Picabo Street, Athlete

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

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game"

John McEnroe, Athlete

"I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid"

John McEnroe, 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

"We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up"

Eric Heiden, Athlete

"Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued"

Eric Heiden, Athlete

"Ladies and gentleman, the Bronx is burning!"

Howard Cosell, Lawyer

"I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it"

Zinedine Zidane, Athlete

"I'll let the racket do the talking"

John McEnroe, Athlete

"We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match, but which we all dream of playing"

Zinedine Zidane, Athlete

"I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game"

Zinedine Zidane, Athlete

"I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"Sports is the toy department of human life"

Howard Cosell, Lawyer

"Sports is human life in microcosm"

Howard Cosell, Lawyer

"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

"No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined"

Paul Gallico, Writer

"The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end"

Zinedine Zidane, Athlete

"It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid"

Zinedine Zidane, Athlete

"I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports, but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker"

Wade Boggs, Athlete

"I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone"

Wade Boggs, Athlete

"I donate money to the existing foundation that funds the US Ski Team kids"

Picabo Street, Athlete

"My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?"

Wade Boggs, Athlete

"In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball"

Wade Boggs, Athlete

"My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region"

Sergei Bubka, Athlete

"I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career"

Sergei Bubka, Athlete

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