Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"Never have a club in your bag that you're afraid to hit"

Tom Kite, Athlete

"A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you"

Tom Kite, Athlete

"It's more than a game. It's an institution"

Thomas Hughes, Lawyer

"I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away!"

Stuart Appleby, Athlete

"There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball"

A. Bartlett Giamatti, Educator

"There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals"

Karrie Webb, Athlete

"I'm happy with the Arena Football League right now. I'm happy in Denver"

John Elway, Athlete

"Any team can have a bad century"

Jack Brickhouse, Celebrity

"I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back"

Greg Maddux, Athlete

"We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets"

David Gill, Scientist

"It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too"

George Eads, Actor

"I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive"

Elvis Stojko, Athlete

"And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through"

Elvis Stojko, Athlete

"My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed"

John Krasinski, Actor

"Golf course design is exciting"

Tom Kite, Athlete

"I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care!"

Jessica Biel, Actress

"I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan"

Robin Yount, Athlete

"The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class"

Paul Fussell, Historian

"Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time"

Eric Bristow, Celebrity

"My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea"

Eric Bristow, Celebrity

"I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted!"

Mickey Rourke, Actor

"The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind"

Dominique Wilkins, Athlete

"To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first"

Mark Lawrenson, Athlete

"Figo is as important to England as Beckham is"

Mark Lawrenson, Athlete

"Bolton are an established team in the Premiership these days, and well respected by the other sides"

Mark Lawrenson, Athlete

"When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration"

Helen Wills Moody, Athlete

"The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this"

Helen Wills Moody, Athlete

"I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is"

Helen Wills Moody, Athlete

"England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield"

Mark Lawrenson, Athlete

"Arguably, Blackburn have got the best forward line in the Premiership. There's no denying that"

Mark Lawrenson, Athlete

"A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters"

Early Wynn, Athlete

"Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp"

Latrell Sprewell, Athlete

"I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied"

Latrell Sprewell, Athlete

"I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head"

Herschel Walker, Athlete

"No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different"

Helen Wills Moody, Athlete

"I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game right now"

David Ginola, Athlete

"Football will always be my foremost passion"

David Ginola, Athlete

"Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there"

David Ginola, Athlete

"The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star"

Hank Sauer, Athlete

"The fans treated me royally"

Hank Sauer, Athlete

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