Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"My favorite NBA team are the Houston Rockets, and favorite college team are the Duke Blue Devils"

Dante Hall, Athlete

"If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but it's just impossible to get to everyone"

Dante Hall, Athlete

"I never dislike anyone that I am in competition with. I welcome the challenge. Besides, I get along with just about everyone"

Dante Hall, Athlete

"I love soccer; I want to be on the field"

Brandi Chastain, Athlete

"Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history"

Fred Willard, Comedian

"But at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball, I know it's mine. It's just a feeling"

Thierry Henry, Athlete

"You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October"

Whitey Ford, Athlete

"I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen"

Scott Brooks, Coach

"I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor"

Michael Irvin, Athlete

"These opportunities don't come around too often. It's quite an honor and a privilege to be able to sit here today saying that I'm a part-owner of an NFL team"

Marc Anthony, Musician

"I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good"

Julius Erving, Athlete

"The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball"

John Thorn, Historian

"In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league"

Julius Erving, Athlete

"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century"

John Thorn, Historian

"San Diego walked away with just a scratch"

Susan Davis, Politician

"I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet"

Julius Erving, Athlete

"It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts"

John Thorn, Historian

"I'm taking T.O., every day... He gives me the whole football field"

Michael Irvin, Athlete

"I know it's more five-star now than it was then, but it's still a difficult tour. In the same way as India and Pakistan players find it difficult coming to Australia. People sometimes have difficulty believing that"

Richie Benaud, Athlete

"From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity"

Richie Benaud, Athlete

"This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League"

John Thorn, Historian

"I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game"

Hidetoshi Nakata, Athlete

"I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life!"

Jim Bunning, Politician

"It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini"

Nancy Kerrigan, Athlete

"The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night"

Bob Dole, Politician

"It is in games that many men discover their paradise"

Robert Wilson Lynd, Writer

"Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me, sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands"

Haile Gebrselassie, Athlete

"Oh! This opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!"

Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity

"As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one"

Gene Tunney, Athlete

"A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'"

Bill Dickey, Athlete

"I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think"

Heidi Klum, Model

"This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there, it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts"

Haile Gebrselassie, Athlete

"Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare"

Gene Tunney, Athlete

"I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things, and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali, but I think I could have promoted Ali"

Dick Schaap, Journalist

"My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics"

Nancy Kerrigan, Athlete

"I get to see the different sides of skating now, which involves not only competing, but entertainment"

Nancy Kerrigan, Athlete

"Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much"

Nancy Kerrigan, Athlete

"And I love what I do, and I love skating"

Nancy Kerrigan, Athlete

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