Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements"

Brian Boitano, Athlete

"You can make plans, but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless"

David Gower, Athlete

"The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England, including a double hundred I am very proud of"

David Gower, Athlete

"It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well"

Hansie Cronje, Athlete

"I guess everybody saw it. It's a deal where I'd been racing cars a long time and I knew, going around the track, the fender was on the tire hard"

Sterling Marlin, Athlete

"It's been tough for me being away from the game"

Saku Koivu, Athlete

"We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee"

Peter Bondra, Athlete

"This is just another man, another fight, another payday"

Joe Frazier, Athlete

"Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book"

Joe Frazier, Athlete

"It's not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough"

Sue Wicks, Athlete

"I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit"

Sue Wicks, Athlete

"With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude"

Shane Warne, Athlete

"If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat"

Geoffrey Boycott, Athlete

"You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk"

Oscar Robertson, Athlete

"They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or you should have had to have been around the game for a long time"

Oscar Robertson, Athlete

"I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play"

Oscar Robertson, Athlete

"Basketball is basketball"

Oscar Robertson, Athlete

"Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years"

Tim Hudson

"To me, it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game"

Jerry Rice, Athlete

"Cricket, the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes"

Mark Wahlberg, Actor

"It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more"

Brian McBride, Athlete

"One of the best ones out there was a guy named Howard Cosell. He was the best"

Larry Holmes, Athlete

"I started tennis around age 2"

Tracy Austin, Athlete

"I didn't want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot"

Tracy Austin, Athlete

"Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine"

Roy Evans, Athlete

"When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast"

Roger Clemens, Athlete

"Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it"

Roger Clemens, Athlete

"Hitting is an art, but not an exact science"

Rod Carew, Athlete

"We have a lot of rule changes. I am part of the competition committee. We spent a lot time evaluating the game, how do we make the game better for our fans?"

Ron Jaworski, Athlete

"My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe"

Randy Castillo, Musician

"In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs"

Harold Larwood, Athlete

"That's our race. That's our playoffs"

Tim Salmon

"I think around the league, I'm getting more respect. And that's great"

Reggie Lewis, Athlete

"Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances"

John Havlicek, Athlete

"You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel"

Greg Rusedski, Athlete

"It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it"

Babe Zaharias, Athlete

"Firstly, the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style"

Nigel Mansell, Athlete

"I am riding for Legacy ATV and I have quite a few new sponsors this year"

Ben Jackson, Writer

"Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance"

Al Spalding, Athlete

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