Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts"

Richard Virenque, Athlete

"That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals"

Mary Lou Retton, Athlete

"Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics"

Mary Lou Retton, Athlete

"Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success"

Mary Lou Retton, Athlete

"I would run through brick walls for Spurs"

Graham Roberts, Actor

"Every week, Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want"

Graham Roberts, Actor

"We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live"

Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress

"I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses"

Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress

"I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me, I will do"

Jeanne Tripplehorn, Actress

"I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that"

Ivan Lendl, Athlete

"Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area, so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid"

Rob Zombie, Musician

"The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame"

Fay Vincent, Lawyer

"There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass"

Joe Montana, Athlete

"Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye"

Roger Kahn, Writer

"I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence"

Shemar Moore, Actor

"It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game"

Fay Vincent, Lawyer

"I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... Oh yes, and swimming"

Roger Moore, Actor

"My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life"

Peggy Fleming, Athlete

"In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event"

Peggy Fleming, Athlete

"We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous!"

Jackie Stewart, Athlete

"I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"It is very important that football can see beyond religion, but FIFA does not just ignore its impact"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"Everywhere you look these days, you see Carolina athletes"

Lorrie Fair, Athlete

"The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"I have no problem with G14. How can I oppose something that as far as I am concerned, does not exist?"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62"

David Coleman, Journalist

"My point of view is that when I am playing cricket, I cannot think that this game is less or more important"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"I think UNC and Lorrie Fair is a perfect match"

Lorrie Fair, Athlete

"I want to know about what makes an athlete tick"

Lisa Guerrero, Journalist

"I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston"

Kenny Dalglish, Athlete

"I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater, and I like to skate to different kinds of music"

Oksana Baiul, Athlete

"But I just want to be known for my football"

Jamie Redknapp, Athlete

"But it's very difficult, I can tell you, I played the Czech Open a few times, and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently, when the greens are fast, and he's not used to it, and they're hard as a rock, and he's not used to it"

Ivan Lendl, Athlete

"No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen"

Ryne Sandberg, Athlete

"I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different"

Carl Yastrzemski, Athlete

"I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight, I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey"

Rob Zombie, Musician

"In this sport, luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other"

Jacky Ickx, Celebrity

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