Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom"

Michael Lewis, Writer

"I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice"

Hank Aaron, Athlete

"It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team"

Jerry West, Artist

"I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation"

Jerry West, Artist

"I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face"

Hank Aaron, Athlete

"Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one"

Dennis Bergkamp, Athlete

"In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football"

Dennis Bergkamp, Athlete

"When I see myself in the videogame, it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed, so that's fun"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on"

Roger Maris, Athlete

"My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that"

Bill Parcells, Coach

"Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles"

Dan Quisenberry, Athlete

"Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves"

Rio Ferdinand, Athlete

"I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them"

Hank Aaron, Athlete

"The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves"

Ty Cobb, Athlete

"My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker"

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Athlete

"What I've noticed in this game is how EA has even duplicated my moves and my style of play perfectly. It is really incredible and a lot of fun to play"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever"

Ralph Kiner, Athlete

"The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting"

Hank Aaron, Athlete

"I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him"

Hank Aaron, Athlete

"So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us"

Dennis Bergkamp, Athlete

"Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me"

Dennis Bergkamp, Athlete

"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture"

Michael Lewis, Writer

"The more people who come from abroad who played soccer and are brought up playing it and watching it then come over to America and bring what they know and what they play, that's how the sport will grow"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"If any player has a bad game, it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it"

Rio Ferdinand, Athlete

"I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player"

Reggie Jackson, Athlete

"I usually stick out my hand and hope he puts the ball in it. Except the one time I went out to take Early Wynn out. I stuck out my hand and he hit me right in the stomach with the ball"

Al Lopez, Coach

"After Jackie Robinson, the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that"

Reggie Jackson, Athlete

"Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life"

Gabriela Sabatini, Athlete

"The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field"

Ty Cobb, Athlete

"I didn't expect to be dropped by England"

Rio Ferdinand, Athlete

"What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis; this is motivating other people"

Gabriela Sabatini, Athlete

"I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot"

Gabriela Sabatini, Athlete

"I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone"

Gabriela Sabatini, Athlete

"This is America's Team, and we are confident this outstanding group of athletes will make our country proud"

Peter Ueberroth, Businessman

"The international game has changed for bidding cities"

Peter Ueberroth, Businessman

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