Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"I think that the World Cup is a big factor for this increased interest. I don't believe all of this is a result of just myself, but also because of the others who are playing abroad"

Hidetoshi Nakata, Athlete

"I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!"

Nancy Kerrigan, Athlete

"Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids"

Jim Sensenbrenner, Politician

"Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished"

Jim Sensenbrenner, Politician

"What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball"

Jeremy London, Actor

"When we race in London, a world record will be the last thing on our minds"

Haile Gebrselassie, Athlete

"What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me"

Haile Gebrselassie, Athlete

"Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing"

Gene Tunney, Athlete

"If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan"

Elgin Baylor, Athlete

"In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure"

Dick Schaap, Journalist

"I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run"

Bill Dickey, Athlete

"I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more"

Hayden Fry, Coach

"People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation"

Nancy Kerrigan, Athlete

"For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport"

Fernando Alonso, Celebrity

"If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing, then you don't like baseball"

Chuck Tanner, Athlete

"I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys"

Carlton Fisk, Athlete

"Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali"

Dick Schaap, Journalist

"It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero"

Dick Schaap, Journalist

"I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested"

Fernando Alonso, Celebrity

"Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could"

Bob Livingston, Politician

"It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think"

Carlton Fisk, Athlete

"My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000"

Cathy Freeman, Athlete

"I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old"

Cathy Freeman, Athlete

"I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around"

Boris Johnson, Politician

"I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion"

Mike Schmidt, Athlete

"Wouldn't it be great if we just ended up tied? I think it would be beautiful"

Mark McGwire, Athlete

"This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again"

Mark McGwire, Athlete

"I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is"

Mark McGwire, Athlete

"The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot"

Bill Russell, Athlete

"Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player"

Bill Klem, Athlete

"People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody - running back, quarterback, wide receiver - make the plays that Vince Young made today"

Dan Fouts, Athlete

"I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun"

Bonnie Blair, Athlete

"The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid"

David Wells, Athlete

"I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me"

David Wells, Athlete

"You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"I predict one of these two teams will win the Super Bowl"

Gilbert Gottfried, Comedian

"I watched Gretzky, I watched Lemieux. Maybe it's the time when you're playing, but for a kid coming into the league, you play the Boston Bruins and you just watched Bobby Orr"

Marcel Dionne, Athlete

"Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat"

Walt Alston, Athlete

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