Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis"

Jana Novotna, Athlete

"I went on and was still able to play some good hockey"

Paul Coffey, Athlete

"No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands"

Lefty Gomez, Athlete

"I just love the feeling from the fans, and when I'm walking on deck, I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything"

David Ortiz, Athlete

"You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying"

Tom Hicks, Businessman

"The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field"

Franco Harris, Athlete

"Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand"

Paul Ince, Athlete

"You never know who will win, and I think that is the great thing about this league (as a player) because it gives you a lot of hope that this could be your year"

Michael Strahan, Athlete

"I'm a competitor"

Donovan Bailey, Athlete

"If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it"

Cale Yarborough, Celebrity

"I think money in general hurts all sports"

Will McDonough, Writer

"With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share of television revenue"

Ted Lindsay, Athlete

"I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous, so I started with Trials riding"

Sete Gibernau, Athlete

"Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw"

Ron Atkinson, Athlete

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring"

Rogers Hornsby, Athlete

"Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off"

Bill Veeck, Businessman

"If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me"

Pete Sampras, Athlete

"I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there"

Steve Finley, Athlete

"The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play"

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Actor

"A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat"

Sonny Liston, Athlete

"But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time"

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Actor

"If you don't throw it, they can't hit it"

Lefty Gomez, Athlete

"Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child"

Stephen Chow, Actor

"The fight will last as long as I allow it to last, and then I will knock him out"

Lennox Lewis, Athlete

"It's going to, you know, I can't go out there and shoot par and win. Everybody is playing well, and I think you'll have to go out tomorrow and have 4, 5, 6 under par, probably"

Raymond Floyd, Athlete

"I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France"

John Tesh, Musician

"Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis"

Jana Novotna, Athlete

"I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments"

Jana Novotna, Athlete

"If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands"

Guy Forget, Athlete

"I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit"

David Ortiz, Athlete

"The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry"

Curt Flood, Athlete

"It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball"

Curt Flood, Athlete

"That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about: the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young"

Suzanne Fields, Writer

"It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it"

Carl Hubbell, Athlete

"I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game"

Richie Allen, Athlete

"I'm not saying I didn't have ample time to recover, ample time to get to my best, I felt this year I did fine. When I stepped on the field for the national team, I was ready and able to make an impact, to score goals, to create chances"

Tiffeny Milbrett, Athlete

"I can't pretend to be enjoying this. I can't pretend I'm enjoying going out there and playing this style"

Tiffeny Milbrett, Athlete

"How would you like to find out how good my right is?"

Sonny Liston, Athlete

"Since I came here I've been treated awesome in all aspects. I really enjoy playing here"

Mats Sundin, Athlete

"The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played"

Ryne Sandberg, Athlete

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