Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that"

Gabriela Sabatini, Athlete

"All of his saves have come in relief appearances"

Ralph Kiner, Athlete

"Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five"

Sugar Ray Leonard, Athlete

"The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too"

Michael Lewis, Writer

"The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years"

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Athlete

"I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter!"

Sugar Ray Leonard, Athlete

"A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs, and it's permeated our game"

Peter Ueberroth, Businessman

"The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"Of course, the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible"

Jim McKay, Journalist

"Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making"

Sugar Ray Leonard, Athlete

"But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box"

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Athlete

"I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy"

Joel McHale, Comedian

"When you've played this game for ten years, and gone to bat seven-thousand times, and gotten two-thousand hits, do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand"

Reggie Jackson, Athlete

"The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint"

Reggie Jackson, Athlete

"At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"Chess is mental torture"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive"

Sugar Ray Leonard, Athlete

"I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money"

Reggie Jackson, Athlete

"I don't think there's any question that the UFL or any other league that wants to challenge the NFL can have an impact. The demand for professional football is off the charts!"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247"

Reggie Jackson, Athlete

"Hitting is better than sex"

Reggie Jackson, Athlete

"You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do!"

Lisa Leslie, Athlete

"So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"Archers are pretty focused"

Geena Davis, Actress

"Because running fast is more fun than running slow"

Frank Shorter, Athlete

"The game is meant to be fun"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for"

Geena Davis, Actress

"The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective"

Frank Shorter, Athlete

"I also held several masters running titles"

Frank Shorter, Athlete

"Rosie knows how to play ball. She's an athlete, for sure"

Geena Davis, Actress

"We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics"

George Pataki, Politician

"Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate"

George Pataki, Politician

"A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"Baseball has all the money"

Brett Hull, Athlete

"Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

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