Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"Everyday I walked on to the field; I was the best center"

Jim Otto, Athlete

"And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever"

Jim Otto, Athlete

"When I hear anything derogatory towards the Raiders, I am definitely hurt"

Jim Otto, Athlete

"It was a very exciting time for me to play professional football, finally"

Jim Otto, Athlete

"Packer fans are nuts, man"

Ray Nitschke, Athlete

"I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time"

George Herman, Journalist

"In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em"

Honus Wagner, Athlete

"In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it"

David Wells, Athlete

"I drank beer, and I had a career year"

David Wells, Athlete

"Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college"

Dante Hall, Athlete

"It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it"

Dorothy Hamill, Athlete

"I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun"

Gabrielle Reece, Athlete

"On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me"

Dante Hall, Athlete

"I had slumps that lasted into the winter"

Bob Uecker, Athlete

"There is hard hitting, but the hitting is not nearly as hard as it used to be"

Jim Otto, Athlete

"If something is said about the Raiders, I'm ready to go to war"

Jim Otto, Athlete

"I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well"

Jim Otto, Athlete

"But now there are more concussions due to not being used to the hard hitting"

Jim Otto, Athlete

"It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that"

Robbie Fowler, Athlete

"You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime"

George Herman, Journalist

"Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world"

George Herman, Journalist

"I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park"

George Herman, Journalist

"I have only one superstition... touch all the bases when I hit a home run"

George Herman, Journalist

"They're still considered Olympic eligibles, so there's never an issue whether they're going to turn pro or not. When they get to that level, money is never an issue. They make so much money now"

Dorothy Hamill, Athlete

"Every time I fumble or drop a ball, I am embarrassed"

Dante Hall, Athlete

"You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead"

Whitey Ford, Athlete

"I'm a huge sports fan"

Marc Anthony, Musician

"I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here"

Richard H. Davis, Writer

"I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports"

Julius Erving, Athlete

"I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court"

Julius Erving, Athlete

"Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist"

Bob Uecker, Athlete

"One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before"

John Thorn, Historian

"In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan"

John Thorn, Historian

"Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?"

John Thorn, Historian

"I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards"

Dorothy Hamill, Athlete

"When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two"

Warren Spahn, Athlete

"As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green"

John Thorn, Historian

"Sports are not for everyone"

Dante Hall, Athlete

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