Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am"

Ryne Sandberg, Athlete

"Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception"

Miguel Indurain, Athlete

"One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect, especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer"

Josh Charles, Actor

"Yes, I would have rather finished up in Pittsburgh"

Franco Harris, Athlete

"I really don't look at comparing things that way because even in a 14-game season, there could be a running back who could have a lot more carries than other running backs"

Franco Harris, Athlete

"In sport, there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car"

Michael Schumacher, Celebrity

"He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is"

Nick Price, Athlete

"I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird"

Tiffeny Milbrett, Athlete

"I think exercise tests us in so many ways: our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes"

Peggy Fleming, Athlete

"You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring"

Gerry Cooney, Athlete

"Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby"

Paul Ince, Athlete

"We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football"

Michael Strahan, Athlete

"People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something"

Kristanna Loken, Actress

"When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs"

Sammy Sosa, Athlete

"I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break"

Sammy Sosa, Athlete

"My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets"

Bridget Hall, Model

"We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart"

Bobby Bonilla, Athlete

"I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound"

Bobby Bonilla, Athlete

"Bottom line is, you have to pitch. You want timely hits"

Bobby Bonilla, Athlete

"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out"

Ryan Cabrera, Musician

"The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate"

Ben Crenshaw, Athlete

"I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way"

Ben Crenshaw, Athlete

"The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing"

Paul Ince, Athlete

"With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be"

Michael Strahan, Athlete

"I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns"

Will McDonough, Writer

"I mean, sports are big, big, big business"

Phil Lesh, Musician

"I've got absolutely no intention of ever going to play at another club"

Steven Gerrard, Athlete

"Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world"

Will McDonough, Writer

"I've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is"

Will McDonough, Writer

"I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music"

Sarah Hughes, Athlete

"I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more"

Raymond Floyd, Athlete

"You kind of live and die by the serve"

Pete Sampras, Athlete

"Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare"

Pete Sampras, Athlete

"It could potentially be a very competitive race"

Bill Luther, Politician

"Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience"

Mary Lou Retton, Athlete

"I come to play everyday"

David Ortiz, Athlete

"I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

"I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids'"

Malcolm Gladwell, Author

"Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - Is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?"

Malcolm Gladwell, Author

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