Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game"

Rick Pitino, Athlete

"My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again"

Dennis Bergkamp, Athlete

"The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life"

Ty Cobb, Athlete

"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest"

Ty Cobb, Athlete

"People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary, they will continue to think that what they think is right"

Michael Lewis, Writer

"I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end"

Sugar Ray Leonard, Athlete

"Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport"

Sugar Ray Leonard, Athlete

"In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you"

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Athlete

"And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity"

Reggie Jackson, Athlete

"I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life"

Michael Bergin, Actor

"I think the best place to work in football is England"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

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

Bill Lee, Athlete

"If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast"

Brett Hull, Athlete

"Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together"

Arsene Wenger, Coach

"Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable"

Tom Landry, Coach

"The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them"

Hank Aaron, Athlete

"I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat"

Hank Aaron, Athlete

"We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball"

Eddie Murray, Athlete

"This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died"

Joe Theismann, Athlete

"You are always flattered when big clubs are interested in you"

Rio Ferdinand, Athlete

"Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch"

Ty Cobb, Athlete

"He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"Other sports play once a week, but this sport is with us every day"

Peter Ueberroth, Businessman

"He is very upbeat, but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete"

Pat Cash, Athlete

"I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first, but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic"

Dennis Bergkamp, Athlete

"Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball"

Bill Parcells, Coach

"I always wanted to be a basketball player"

Ronnie James Dio, Musician

"Boxing has become America's tragic theater"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that"

Jerry West, Artist

"If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors"

George Brett, Athlete

"Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that"

Joe Theismann, Athlete

"We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal!"

Arsene Wenger, Coach

"Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them"

Arsene Wenger, Coach

"Yes, there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them"

Gay Talese, Journalist

"It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs"

Roger Maris, Athlete

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