Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate"

Bill Terry, Athlete

"In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes, I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium"

Bode Miller, Athlete

"You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game"

Bernhard Langer, Athlete

"Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years, when the matches have been so tight"

Bernhard Langer, Athlete

"Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in"

Bernhard Langer, Athlete

"I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual"

David Ginola, Athlete

"The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries"

Art Modell, Businessman

"My aggression out there is my weapon. I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies"

Andy Roddick, Athlete

"Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are"

Barry Bonds, Athlete

"Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies"

Bill Toomey, Athlete

"My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding"

Bill Toomey, Athlete

"I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball!"

Barry Bonds, Athlete

"The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching"

Damon Hill, Athlete

"Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people"

Bud Selig, Celebrity

"That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on"

Bernhard Langer, Athlete

"I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments"

Bernhard Langer, Athlete

"Living here in Southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska"

Al Michaels, Entertainer

"Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family"

Bill Toomey, Athlete

"With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue"

Anne Campbell, Politician

"They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport"

Bernie Ecclestone, Businessman

"But I think the guys are very happy to accommodate the people and that's part of golf in general"

Bernhard Langer, Athlete

"For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art"

Avery Brundage, Athlete

"This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league"

Allen Iverson, Athlete

"Being an All-Star is everything"

Allen Iverson, Athlete

"I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons"

Al Michaels, Entertainer

"Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way"

Alvin Dark, Athlete

"The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption"

Al Sharpton, Politician

"It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player!"

Barry Bonds, Athlete

"Rock 'n' roll... but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza"

Angie Everhart, Model

"If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that's good or bad for the game, and if there aren't any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that"

Al Michaels, Entertainer

"In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that!"

Alvin Dark, Athlete

"Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living"

Alvin Dark, Athlete

"We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to"

Jerry Lawler, Entertainer

"Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show, is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis"

Jerry Lawler, Entertainer

"I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took years and years to build and now that's gone. The commentary is lacking"

Jerry Lawler, Entertainer

"But my biggest passion is football"

Greg Akcelrod, Athlete

"There was a time there, in the mid '80s to the '90s there, that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year, for a long time there"

Mark Messier, Athlete

"One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think"

Ed Belfour, Athlete

"My whole career, I'm used to playing a lot of games"

Ed Belfour, Athlete

"I have been dealing with back problems since 1995, when I was with the Blackhawks, and I've only missed part of one season because of it. That was last season in Toronto"

Ed Belfour, Athlete

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