Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"Right now, it's very difficult to single out one fighter, pound-for-pound, who is the best. Right now, it's very complex. Miguel Cotto, Mayweather and Zab Judah's a good fighter as well"

Roberto Duran, Athlete

"As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game"

Rex Stout, Writer

"When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more"

Michael Andretti, Athlete

"It's a tremendous honor. It really is a privilege, not just a right. You're in the NFL and you wear the shield now. It means the world to me; it really is a special feeling, and my family's gotten a real kick out of it"

Mark Sanchez, Athlete

"You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if it's good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door"

Jim Lampley, Celebrity

"Cricket was my reason for living"

Harold Larwood, Athlete

"I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball"

Shoeless Joe Jackson, Athlete

"I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball"

Tim Hardaway, Athlete

"You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you play the game. That's what it's for. That's why you work"

Greg Rusedski, Athlete

"It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide"

Greg Rusedski, Athlete

"I don't think there's a problem at all with steroids in the NHL. I can say that"

Mike Ricci

"The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here"

Al Unser, Athlete

"Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds"

John McGraw, Writer

"Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions"

Sunil Gavaskar, Athlete

"We signed to play until the day we died, and we did"

Jimmy Greaves, Athlete

"The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it"

Jimmy Greaves, Athlete

"It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide"

Steve Waugh, Athlete

"Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching"

Steve Waugh, Athlete

"The rim is looking bigger and bigger every game"

Paul Pierce, Athlete

"And I mean I never doubt anybody's record"

Inge de Bruijn, Athlete

"I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy"

Bob Hayes, Athlete

"The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty"

David Gower, Athlete

"To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game"

Enos Slaughter, Athlete

"Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now"

Carly Patterson, Athlete

"The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money"

Tony Oliva, Athlete

"It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath"

Sterling Marlin, Athlete

"At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again"

Robbie Keane, Athlete

"It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former"

Richard Pound, Businessman

"I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"Baseball gets better for whatever reason"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"Go out and have fun. Golf is a game for everyone, not just for the talented few"

Harvey Penick, Athlete

"I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite"

Verne Troyer, Actor

"Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury"

Tracy Austin, Athlete

"Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots"

Tracy Austin, Athlete

"I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships"

Tracy Austin, Athlete

"The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time"

Steffi Graf, Athlete

"The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition"

Roger Clemens, Athlete

"My main concern is when it's 2-0, I've got to keep it at 2-0. It gives us a little more of a chance. To give up four more runs, that isn't going to get it done. I don't care who you're facing or who you're playing, it's not going to get it done"

Roger Clemens, Athlete

"I dig all kinds of competition"

Randy Castillo, Musician

"The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge"

Nigel Mansell, Athlete

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