Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"Regaining the Champions Cup is not going to be easy"

Luis Figo, Athlete

"I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest"

Jim Brown, Athlete

"Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development"

Jim Courier, Athlete

"In baseball, there's always the next day"

Ryne Sandberg, Athlete

"I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me"

Jeff Gordon, Athlete

"I think no matter what you do, you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say: 'Take a little time off, do something fun'"

Jana Novotna, Athlete

"It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour"

Paul Ince, Athlete

"When you are a professional sportsman, all the guys are great competitors in the top 50"

Guy Forget, Athlete

"When you are very little, tennis should be fun, it should be a game"

Guy Forget, Athlete

"I think that every single person should play sports"

Donovan Bailey, Athlete

"All I wanted to be was a player"

Franco Harris, Athlete

"I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms"

Cale Yarborough, Celebrity

"Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity"

Will McDonough, Writer

"Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter, and you hardly see guys like that anymore"

Gerry Cooney, Athlete

"If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person"

Curt Flood, Athlete

"By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six"

Ted Lindsay, Athlete

"Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person"

Steven Gerrard, Athlete

"With roadracing, it takes a lot more time and money"

Sete Gibernau, Athlete

"So while I was studying, I rode my Trials bike, then I moved to roadracing"

Sete Gibernau, Athlete

"I started playing Madden back in 1993 because that was the first year I actually made it into the game and that was a big thrill. When you're in Madden, you've made it, baby"

Michael Strahan, Athlete

"I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken"

Martha Stewart, Entertainer

"Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting or alongside acting"

Shemar Moore, Actor

"Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer"

Richard Krajicek, Athlete

"I don't think anybody was ever up 6-2 and would lose the tiebreaker"

Richard Krajicek, Athlete

"I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes"

Richard Krajicek, Athlete

"When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun"

Randy Johnson, Athlete

"I think the Olympics could help us reach more people"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match, they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less"

Pete Sampras, Athlete

"In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically"

Pete Sampras, Athlete

"I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced"

Will McDonough, Writer

"We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic, against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

"The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

"Pitching is a priority"

Tom Hicks, Businessman

"We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington"

Tom Hicks, Businessman

"Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence"

Lewis H. Lapham, Editor

"But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings"

Ted Lindsay, Athlete

"At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it"

Ted Lindsay, Athlete

"I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy"

Steven Gerrard, Athlete

"I had started my love affair with Wimbledon"

John Newcombe, Athlete

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