Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt"

Gerald McRaney, Actor

"I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept"

Gerald McRaney, Actor

"You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically: bumping, balance, performance"

Emerson Fittipaldi, Celebrity

"We used to tour quite a lot during the summer with Everton in my day"

Dixie Dean, Athlete

"The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that"

David Gill, Scientist

"You still remember the bad rounds here, but they don't stay with you as long. The Champions Tour is great, it's competitive and it's a wonderful show, but it's not the real big league. The real big league is the PGA Tour, and we all know that"

Tom Kite, Athlete

"I play a lot of charity golf, mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week"

Eric Bristow, Celebrity

"I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away"

Stuart Appleby, Athlete

"There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew"

A. Bartlett Giamatti, Educator

"The crowd paid little or no respect to every player out there tonight"

Bob Anderson, Writer

"I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times"

Juan Marichal, Athlete

"I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound"

Greg Maddux, Athlete

"A pitcher is not a ballplayer"

Christy Mathewson, Athlete

"It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball it's called rhythm"

Eddie Mathews, Athlete

"Four times out of five the linesman gets a better view of the ball near him than the player himself"

Helen Wills Moody, Athlete

"A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy"

Early Wynn, Athlete

"I don't believe that you can be too short as a quarterback. It's not about height"

Drew Brees, Athlete

"The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years"

Bill Toomey, Athlete

"Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a Division 3 college tennis team at age 38"

David Crane

"The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid"

Don Drysdale, Athlete

"You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends"

Bernhard Langer, Athlete

"We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is"

Bernhard Langer, Athlete

"Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer"

Craig Johnston, Athlete

"That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition"

Bob Cousy, Athlete

"When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me, it's better to ski fast"

Bode Miller, Athlete

"I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching"

Christy Mathewson, Athlete

"I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it"

Chris Bell, Politician

"Major League Baseball is a national institution, and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth"

Bud Selig, Celebrity

"Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us play and see us in action, but they also want to interact with us"

Bernhard Langer, Athlete

"The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation"

Avery Brundage, Athlete

"Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment"

Avery Brundage, Athlete

"Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music"

Avery Brundage, Athlete

"As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work"

Avery Brundage, Athlete

"It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl"

Al Michaels, Entertainer

"But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football"

Al Michaels, Entertainer

"I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer"

Anne Campbell, Politician

"Nobody wants to see teams out of contention showcased in December and January. I'm sure this is something that will be discussed again this off-season"

Al Michaels, Entertainer

"I don't want the All-Star Game to be a one-time thing"

Reggie Lewis, Athlete

"Taking part in these types of programs is crucial to our youth and crucial to the future of this game"

Troy Vincent, Athlete

"I thought last week's game was ugly and this was even uglier"

Mike Tice, Coach

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