Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

Jay Mohr, Actor

"I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level"

Kurt Russell, Actor

"Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man"

Karl Malone, Athlete

"I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field"

Jay Mohr, Actor

"Lots of times I was out through forcing the game"

Frank Woolley, Athlete

"It's a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby"

Jonah Lomu, Athlete

"People on the streets are ready for hockey"

Eric Lindros, Athlete

"I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports"

Gregg Easterbrook, Author

"Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him!"

George Steinbrenner, Businessman

"I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be"

George Steinbrenner, Businessman

"I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything"

Nick Johnson, Athlete

"I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn"

Nick Johnson, Athlete

"The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame, the better"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special"

Nick Johnson, Athlete

"Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty"

Paul Parker, Athlete

"Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more!"

Niki Lauda, Athlete

"I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider"

Davy Jones, Musician

"If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals"

Debi Thomas, Athlete

"I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now, and everyone would get back to playing baseball"

Jay Mohr, Actor

"As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game"

Herb Kohl, Politician

"I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon"

Goran Ivanisevic, Athlete

"I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that"

John Malkovich, Actor

"When I went to Brooklyn in 1948, Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him"

Jack Dempsey, Athlete

"These days, baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man, you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"Now it's on to May, and you know about me and May"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small, I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble"

Bob Feller, Athlete

"Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player"

Bob Feller, Athlete

"I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?"

Bill Veeck, Businessman

"Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere"

Bill Veeck, Businessman

"A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"I believe that if the Tribune Company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe"

Billy Corgan, Musician

"I am very excited to be here in Wales and look forward to putting on the Cardiff Blues shirt"

Jonah Lomu, Athlete

"I chose baseball because, to me, baseball is the best game of all"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

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