Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"When that bell rang, I wanted to go out there and do my thing"

Gerry Cooney, Athlete

"Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was, due to all the politics"

Gerry Cooney, Athlete

Carl Yastrzemski, Athlete

"The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything"

Carl Yastrzemski, Athlete

"Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football"

Wellington Mara, Businessman

"The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours"

Peggy Fleming, Athlete

"But then, I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team"

Richard Roeper, Critic

"Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible"

Karl Malone, Athlete

"All records are not made to be broken"

Karl Malone, Athlete

"It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"Professional competitions are overrated"

Oksana Baiul, Athlete

"Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you're always more motivated, simply because you feel at home"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire, you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"The NFL today has bigger, stronger bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"I ran track and basically played every sport"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"If he can hit, he can hit. I don't care if he came from Class Z league"

Frank Robinson, Athlete

"Spurs haven't got the funds they need, so success has to be achieved gradually"

Graham Roberts, Actor

"Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit"

Graham Roberts, Actor

"But Rangers don't need to go there and win, they need to go there and get a point. I think the hardest thing about it is there will be no supporters. Playing in an empty ground will be a problem for the players"

Graham Roberts, Actor

"In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever"

Joe Montana, Athlete

"I don't know if you could take a whole 90 minutes and say that was the best game we ever played"

Lorrie Fair, Athlete

"But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race"

Dan Wheldon, Celebrity

"To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture"

Dan O'Brien, Athlete

"As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning"

Dan O'Brien, Athlete

"I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball"

George Steinbrenner, Businessman

"It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine"

Rogers Hornsby, Athlete

"If I could have come in for $10m, I would have done that. I've been pretty smart with my money. I'm playing because I want to play this game here - I want the opportunity"

Karl Malone, Athlete

"Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially"

John Zimmerman, Athlete

"I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish"

Ian St. John, Athlete

"It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss"

Frank Woolley, Athlete

"I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone"

Frank Robinson, Athlete

"To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

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