Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"It's a great honour to be alongside a champion like you. When I scored that goal against Torino, I thought of you right away"

Marek Hamšík, Athlete

"In Naples, football is like a religion, and the Stadio San Paolo is the church"

Marek Hamšík, Athlete

"I still haven't realised that I surpassed Maradona"

Marek Hamšík, Athlete

"When I am batting, the moment I face up to the bowler, my concentration is zeroed in on him and the ball. Everything else is shut out"

Garfield Sobers, Athlete

"The proper use of the mind is the one thing that separates champions from merely good players"

Garfield Sobers, Athlete

"I love gymnastics so much and that's why I continue doing it"

Oksana Chusovitina, Athlete

"I never swam for medals. I just swam to see how fast I could go"

Kirsty Coventry, Athlete

"The story is always bigger than the score"

Mike Tirico, Journalist

"Every time I'm on the court, every time a fan cheers for me, I just want to go out and make a play for them to cheer even more"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"If they're going to foul me, I'm going to step to the line and make some free throws"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"You know how I learned to shoot? I watched white people. Just regular white people. They really put their elbow in and finish up top. You can find videos of them online"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"If I'm playing well, and we're winning games, that's what I want"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"If I'm not making plays, I can't get the crowd going. When I'm making plays, that's where I can feel a vibe and can get into it with the crowd"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"I want people to say that an African basketball player is the best player in the whole world"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"A lot of people just think I'm a big man, but I'm a basketball player. I am able to do everything that a basketball player can do - from playmaking and scoring to just passing the ball and just being a leader and post presence"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"I love being physical"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"When I look at myself, I'm not a big man - I'm a guard. I can do everything on the basketball court. You can name it - pass, post up, shoot the ball, bring the ball up, being a playmaker - so I'm excited to break that stereotype"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"On the defensive end, I have to do my job"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"I love when guys come at the beginning of the game and start talking trash. It gets me going"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"I'm starting to figure it out - figure out my spots, where I should be on the court, where I'm most effective, and how I handle double teams - and it's paying off"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"In a season, you're going to go through slumps"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"One thing when I started playing in the league, I saw that a lot of guys are friendly. It's OK to be friendly, especially off the court. But on the court, I want to dominate"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"My very first scrimmage at Kansas, I got dunked on so hard by Tarik Black that I almost quit. Tarik dunked on me so hard that I was looking at plane tickets home. This guy was a senior. He was a grown man. I didn't know what was going on. He got his own rebound and dunked over me so hard that everything went in slow motion"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"I love pressure. That's what you work for"

Joel Embiid, Athlete

"You can't flinch. You can't blink. You have to go play"

Mike Vrabel, Coach

"I hope that people can understand that athletes are humans too"

Naomi Osaka, Athlete

"I was thinking that if I hit his nuts, maybe he would serve like a woman"

Thomas Muster, Athlete

"You can't let your mind wander during the game. You have to stay focused on the moment and do your job"

Jonathan Quick, Athlete

"I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler"

Perry Christie, Statesman

"Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000"

Trevor Brooking, Athlete

"All we can do is play ball. Every time we go out on the field, we do what we do in America - live in the freedom that our country affords us"

Tim Salmon

"Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth"

Jack Kent Cooke, Businessman

"The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all"

Lou Gehrig, Athlete

"I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do"

Pedro Martinez, Athlete

"I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business"

Mike Peters, Cartoonist

"Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will"

Ron Blomberg, Athlete

"Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports"

Lesley Visser

"I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada, this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance"

John Atkinson, Judge

"To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman"

Jerry Kramer, Athlete

"He slides into second with a stand up double"

Jerry Coleman, Athlete

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