Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari"

Jacky Ickx, Celebrity

"I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball"

Kurt Russell, Actor

"Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it"

Karl Malone, Athlete

"Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"So, nonetheless, given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling, being marginalised even in the Catholic school"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"I was never any good at cricket, thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch"

Peter Tork, Musician

"The business always gets in the way of basketball"

Jason Kidd, Athlete

"I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot"

Jay Hernandez, Actor

"Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that, but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players, and that's no good for our youngsters coming through"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne, the footballer"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players"

Frank Woolley, Athlete

"Yes, in general, I think there is too much club football on TV"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"Before coming here, I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan, I get a back problem"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"The bottom line is: what we do might not be the safest, so there is always some risk, but we are ready to take that into account, because we love racing, and we love motor sports, and it is dangerous"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing"

Marcus Allen, Athlete

"At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones"

Marcus Allen, Athlete

"You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself"

Karl Malone, Athlete

"I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama"

Karl Malone, Athlete

"I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it"

Jay Hernandez, Actor

"People have always thought of me as a passer of the ball, but you can't just be that these days"

Jamie Redknapp, Athlete

"I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going"

Neal Schon, Musician

"My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden"

Jason Kidd, Athlete

"I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there"

Jason Kidd, Athlete

"Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football, from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000"

Fay Vincent, Lawyer

"Square cuts, which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary, earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match"

Frank Woolley, Athlete

"It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play"

Steve Largent, Athlete

"The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"There are a few players who don't like to think about the game"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"But eventually it is a game of cricket"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

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