Sports & Teamwork: Sports Quotes

"Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"There are only two seasons - winter and baseball"

Bill Veeck, Businessman

"You can't slow the game here. It's grass, it's always going to be fast"

Goran Ivanisevic, Athlete

"The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win"

Phil Mickelson, Athlete

"Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place"

Ben Crenshaw, Athlete

"I loved the game. We played because we loved it"

Jim Brown, Athlete

"I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports"

Vince Carter, Athlete

"I signed Koufax for fourteen grand and a hot dog"

Al Campanis, Businessman

"Anybody who is a fan of any team is going to recognize themselves in this"

Peter Farrelly, Director

"I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on"

Jim Courier, Athlete

"The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in"

Steven Gerrard, Athlete

"FIFA cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we"

Sepp Blatter, Leader

"Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded"

Mary Lou Retton, Athlete

"Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order"

Carl Hubbell, Athlete

"I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns"

Tom Hicks, Businessman

"I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time"

Gerry Cooney, Athlete

"To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain"

Harry Vardon, Athlete

"This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons"

Steve Mariucci, Coach

"Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class"

David Coleman, Journalist

"My first year of pro ball, I played in the Northwest League and made the All-Star team, and the next year I played, I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league"

Kurt Russell, Actor

"In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to"

Pat Summerall, Celebrity

"But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place"

Marcus Allen, Athlete

"I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship"

Major Taylor, Athlete

"I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it"

Carl Yastrzemski, Athlete

"But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off"

Ian St. John, Athlete

"I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard"

Karl Malone, Athlete

"I think you're certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in the IRL. I just can't stress how competitive they all are and how close it's going to be"

Dan Wheldon, Celebrity

"To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit"

Rogers Hornsby, Athlete

"Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing"

Jay Mohr, Actor

"Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world"

Frank Bruno, Athlete

"The biggest thing for me is just to get out on that field. Just to do that will be incredible"

Jonah Lomu, Athlete

"One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and it's been that ever since"

Cy Young, Athlete

"Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures"

Alessandro Del Piero, Athlete

"Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur"

Will Rogers, Actor

"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports"

Richard M. Nixon, President

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