Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator"

Nick Hornby, Writer

"The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money"

Ernie Banks, Athlete

"It's a beautiful day for a ballgame... Let's play two!"

Ernie Banks, Athlete

"No, I think the pitching today has more depth"

Ernie Banks, Athlete

"There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes"

Ian Botham, Athlete

"The Cubs are due in sixty-two"

Ernie Banks, Athlete

"Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts"

Bob Lilly, Athlete

"We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime"

Bob Lilly, Athlete

"Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy"

Bradley Whitford, Actor

"I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test"

Ian Botham, Athlete

"I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad"

Ian Botham, Athlete

"To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win"

Ian Botham, Athlete

"I get asked that a lot, and I really don't"

Frank Lampard, Athlete

"I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too, I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic"

Frank Lampard, Athlete

"Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks"

Frank Lampard, Athlete

"In Cuba, we use our champions to promote the sport"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball"

Casper Van Dien, Actor

"Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes,. They go somewhere else. Some of them don't, but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players"

Bob Lilly, Athlete

"I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for"

Ian Botham, Athlete

"I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something"

Dick Butkus, Athlete

"I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately"

Casper Van Dien, Actor

"I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"We are just not made up to be middle distance runners"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"Nowadays, the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"Time control directly influences the quality of play"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time"

Bill Walton, Athlete

"I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k, just to promote the sport"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"I wanted to be a professional baseball player"

Balthazar Getty, Actor

"I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do"

Jeremy Lin, Athlete

"I was shocked cause I didn't even know that they made my jersey. I didn't know that they made it so fast, so when I saw it I was like, I had to look three times and I was like, 'Did they customize that?' And then I saw a couple of other ones and I was like, ok, they must've made them overnight or something"

Jeremy Lin, Athlete

"I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don't feel my game resembles his though"

Jeremy Lin, Athlete

"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature"

Thorstein Veblen, Economist

"I try to enjoy. If I'm enjoying, I play my best tennis"

Carlos Alcaraz, Athlete

"When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade"

Ryan Sypek, Actor

"Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone"

Mark McGwire, Athlete

"What position didn't I play last season?"

Aaron Hill, Poet

"I'm not even close to those guys, but I don't think anyone loves the game more than me"

David Wells, Athlete

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