Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now"

Jerry Coleman, Athlete

"I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job"

Tony Oliva, Athlete

"With Andy Cole up front, they can score at any time. We'll be watching him very closely"

Robert Laurent, Sculptor

"You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day"

Nomar Garciaparra, Athlete

"The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... The Yanks have four"

Keith Hernandez, Athlete

"There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain"

Jim Thome, Athlete

"We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game"

Alan Shearer, Athlete

"I'm excited about being here in an organization that I grew up rooting for... I'm excited about being an Atlanta Brave and pitching in Game 1"

Tim Hudson

"Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer, they are going to get some help with added payroll"

Dusty Baker, Athlete

"My experience and what I do in snowboarding is really quite independent of the industry and the more independent it is, the more pure and better I feel about snowboarding"

Craig Kelly, Athlete

"I want to be involved in soccer some way"

Brian McBride, Athlete

"The Finals are about a test of wills"

Bill Laimbeer, Coach

"The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever"

Amanda Beard, Athlete

"Obviously, the competitor in you, you want to be in the top three every time in the pool"

Amanda Beard, Athlete

"In high school and college, all my friends and my brother wrestled"

Verne Troyer, Actor

"I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit"

Nigel Mansell, Athlete

"I just think more precaution should be taken when I'm inside the pocket. Look at all the replays - I'm on the ground every time. It's unfortunate for myself, it's unfortunate for my team and I'd be lying if I sat here and said I wasn't frustrated right now"

Michael Vick, Athlete

"He is not someone who went off to play in Europe, and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage"

Lamar Hunt, Entertainer

"I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars"

Johnny Weissmuller, Actor

"Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him"

John Turturro, Actor

"Football kicks you in the teeth"

Dave Jones, Coach

"It's always frustrating when you leave people on base"

Danny Bautista, Athlete

"The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw"

Cal Hubbard, Athlete

"That's what amateur skating is about: technical expertise, and it should always stay that way"

Brian Boitano, Athlete

"It was a fair decision: the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box"

Bobby Charlton, Athlete

"Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire. The next thing we knew they were fighting about it"

Bert Campaneris, Athlete

"I had a great year and left my guts out on the field"

Alex Rodriguez, Athlete

"I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent"

Sue Wicks, Athlete

"I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it, but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt, so that's fine with me, but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take"

Larry Holmes, Athlete

"I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world, but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out"

Larry Holmes, Athlete

"I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so-"

Larry Holmes, Athlete

"I am still quick at 250 to 260 lbs and I am smarter"

Larry Holmes, Athlete

"Fighters today are much bigger, stronger, and quicker, and not only that, but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict, and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped"

Larry Holmes, Athlete

"All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps"

Larry Holmes, Athlete

"Yep, I'll stay a Brisbane Lion, you've heard it first"

Jonathan Brown, Athlete

"Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one's character"

Russell Mark, Writer

"I've addressed this before, and I'll say it again: The league has to take a long, hard look at full-time officials. The officiating has been inconsistent all season long"

Ron Jaworski, Athlete

"Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field"

Steve Carlton, Athlete

"It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball"

Jack Buck, Celebrity

"If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact"

Ron Fairly, Athlete

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