Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali'"

Wilt Chamberlain, Athlete

"I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession"

Ian Botham, Athlete

"You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me"

Dougray Scott, Actor

"The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football"

Dick Butkus, Athlete

"Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way"

Frank Lampard, Athlete

"It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!"

Ernie Banks, Athlete

"It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player: how pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers"

Ernie Banks, Athlete

"I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars"

Art Garfunkel, Musician

"I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement"

Josie Maran, Model

"Only two journalists followed the team around"

Just Fontaine, Athlete

"I think I'll take my record of 13 goals to the grave"

Just Fontaine, Athlete

"I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody"

Scott Hamilton, Athlete

"We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax"

Whitey Herzog, Athlete

"Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football"

Frank Gifford, Athlete

"Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport, I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands"

Just Fontaine, Athlete

"Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy"

Joe Louis, Athlete

"Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain"

Celine Dion, Musician

"I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world"

Norm MacDonald, Actor

"But I was very much into sports when I was a child"

Eva Herzigova, Model

"Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it"

Just Fontaine, Athlete

"The emotions of the game do not change"

Jack Youngblood, Athlete

"Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career"

Jack Youngblood, Athlete

"You have to defeat a great player's aura more than his game"

Pat Riley, Coach

"In 2002, the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times, so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"You sweat out the free agent thing in November, then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January, and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms"

Whitey Herzog, Athlete

"Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it"

Whitey Herzog, Athlete

"But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen"

Tim McGraw, Musician

"As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well"

Scott Hamilton, Athlete

"The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller"

Susan Estrich, Journalist

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