Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream"

Sergei Bubka, Athlete

"I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber"

Alex Lowe, Athlete

"My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately, I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad"

Zinedine Zidane, Athlete

"A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind"

Ronald Graham, Mathematician

"I hate to admit that. I want to win every race, but I know that's not possible. To be in the top 25 is realistic if we have any luck this year. But anything to be in the chase or something like that is very unrealistic"

Roger Staubach, Athlete

"The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles"

Ice Cube, Musician

"Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing"

Natalie Gulbis, Athlete

"The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved"

Sergei Bubka, Athlete

"The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen"

Sergei Bubka, Athlete

"I'm looking forward to free skiing the most. Just groomers, big wide groomers, making nice big turns"

Picabo Street, Athlete

"Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports"

Katarina Witt, Athlete

"Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport"

Katarina Witt, Athlete

"I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can, and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect"

Picabo Street, Athlete

"I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock"

Picabo Street, Athlete

"Sports life is very short"

Sergei Bubka, Athlete

"I began with track and field because this is what I know"

Sergei Bubka, Athlete

"What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything"

Sergei Bubka, Athlete

"Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart"

Sergei Bubka, Athlete

"It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"I love to be in front of big galleries"

Natalie Gulbis, Athlete

"Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... So to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing"

Natalie Gulbis, Athlete

"It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players"

Natalie Gulbis, Athlete

"If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen"

John McEnroe, Athlete

"This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well"

Murray Walker, Entertainer

"Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees, I fail to see how he can avoid doing so"

Murray Walker, Entertainer

"I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's"

Natalie Gulbis, Athlete

"Play every game as if it is your last one"

Guy Lafleur, Athlete

"I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that"

John McEnroe, Athlete

"See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much, and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying"

John McEnroe, Athlete

"I think the players, I put in the book, for example, that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety"

John McEnroe, Athlete

"On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity"

Alan Thicke, Actor

"They're just big in the eyes of the American public"

Eric Heiden, Athlete

"It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey"

Eric Heiden, Athlete

"Later in July, I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th, where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City"

Jane D. Hull, Politician

"I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers', it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate"

Guy Lafleur, Athlete

"Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that"

Eric Heiden, Athlete

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