Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"I think it was a great moment for America to have two ladies on the podium"

Sarah Hughes, Athlete

"I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre"

Jamie Redknapp, Athlete

"Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win"

Ivan Lendl, Athlete

"I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange"

Ivan Lendl, Athlete

"But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed"

Ivan Lendl, Athlete

"But we do have a golf course near by, and I play fairly regularly"

Perry Como, Musician

"Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players"

Richard Krajicek, Athlete

"But then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest"

Richard Krajicek, Athlete

"But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game"

Richard Krajicek, Athlete

"I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve"

Pete Sampras, Athlete

"There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence"

Guy Forget, Athlete

"There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference"

Luis Figo, Athlete

"I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school"

John Newcombe, Athlete

"What we have to do is to find a solution that the interests of the national teams are respecting the interests of the clubs. And also the clubs they shall respect the interests and the aspirations of national teams"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"Because I love football and I love the footballers"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"Obviously, after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing"

Marcus Allen, Athlete

"Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN"

Marcus Allen, Athlete

"It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?"

Marcus Allen, Athlete

"But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody"

Marcus Allen, Athlete

"He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate"

Ron Atkinson, Athlete

"But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out"

Carl Hubbell, Athlete

"As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934"

Carl Hubbell, Athlete

"I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades"

Oksana Baiul, Athlete

"I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them"

Jason Kidd, Athlete

"Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for"

Mary Lou Retton, Athlete

"For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth"

Mary Lou Retton, Athlete

"As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter"

Mary Lou Retton, Athlete

"There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun"

Steve Largent, Athlete

"It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd"

Steve Largent, Athlete

"When I went into the last lap, I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time. Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It's made by God's hands"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform"

Ryne Sandberg, Athlete

"Baseball wasn't easy for me"

Ryne Sandberg, Athlete

"I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away"

Gerry Cooney, Athlete

"I think racing and riding are two different elements of cycling. You either want to or not, depending on what you want to get out of it"

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Actor

"Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed"

Roger Kahn, Writer

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