Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams"

Kenny Cunningham, Athlete

"Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay"

Monica Seles, Athlete

"People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors"

John Sweeney, Politician

"The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar"

Randy Moss, Athlete

"There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon"

Pete Rozelle, Celebrity

"I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them"

Nelson Piquet, Celebrity

"There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public"

Michel Patini, Writer

"I was never a prisoner to my footballing status"

Michel Patini, Writer

"I never did have a team that I watched in my younger days"

Jamal Lewis, Athlete

"Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are, but some aren't"

David Gill, Scientist

"The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that"

Stuart Appleby, Athlete

"No one man is superior to the game"

A. Bartlett Giamatti, Educator

"All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League"

A. Bartlett Giamatti, Educator

"Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning"

Hal Sutton, Athlete

"Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too"

Hal Sutton, Athlete

"I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there"

Hal Sutton, Athlete

"Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there"

Hal Sutton, Athlete

"The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"I was a gymnast for years"

Kelly Preston, Actress

"When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start"

Dennis Eckersley, Athlete

"My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important"

Dennis Eckersley, Athlete

"I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings"

Dennis Eckersley, Athlete

"I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there"

Dennis Eckersley, Athlete

"When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running"

Juan Marichal, Athlete

"Clemens and Maddux have defined our era, I believe. And Randy Johnson is right behind them and still going"

David Cone, Athlete

"Well, actually I don't care what surface I'm playing on"

Daniela Hantuchova, Athlete

"You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you awake at night. They are going to use everything possible"

Cobi Jones, Athlete

"The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one"

Tris Speaker, Athlete

"Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball"

Tris Speaker, Athlete

"I was very lucky, in as much as I played a lot of tennis"

Dabney Coleman, Actor

"I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal"

John Elway, Athlete

"After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket"

Hank Sauer, Athlete

"In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners"

Joe Henderson, Athlete

"Nobody is thinking they're going to come out here and put a team here and become a multimillionaire. I don't know anybody that comes into the NFL like that"

Jerry Jones, Businessman

"As far as a guy like Ray Lewis is concerned, you know he's going to be around the ball all the time"

Jamal Lewis, Athlete

"It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans"

Henry Chadwick, Writer

"Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve"

Henry Chadwick, Writer

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