RANDOM QUOTES

Rowing
Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still.
- Hannah Whitall Smith
9
Wrestling
Every day I turned a “you can't” into a “you can.”
- Rulon Gardner
3
Tennis
Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker.
- Venus Williams
8
Rowing
I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I have a good VO2 max - I can hold a lot of air in my lungs - and that definitely helps.
- Bryan Volpenhein
1
Swimming
A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.
- Missy Franklin
1
Table Tennis
Great champions also make a lot of mistakes like second-rate players, but the time they make mistakes is very different. Champions rarely make mistakes at the most critical times
- Liu Guoliang
13
Track & Field
I don't train to absorb the pain, I train to break the pain.
- Henry Rono
3
Skiing
I'm never tired of winning, and I'm never tired of skiing.
- Lindsey Vonn
1
Swimming
If you have a lane, you have a chance.
- Unknown
1
Hockey
A month before the season, I don't order fries with my club sandwich.
- Mario Lemieux
1
Football
If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
- Arsene Wenger
8
Basketball
I’m a mad dog whose only concern is winning.
- Charles Barkley
1
Table Tennis
When teaching beginners, ask them to stare at the opponent's hand when playing in the game. Repeat this for 30 times in an hour
- Coach from Shichahai Valley
5
Tennis
I play each point like my life depends on it.
- Rafael Nadal
5
Tennis
Before I was the hunter. Now I'm the hunted.
- Martina Hingis
3
Baseball
I can't play being mad. I go out there and have fun. It's a game, and that's how I am going to treat it.
- Ken Griffey Jr.
1
Badminton
I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.
- Saina Nehwal
5
Lacrosse
There is nothing you can be doing in lacrosse on your own in the fall that would be better for you than going to football or soccer practice every day.
- Dom Starsia
1
Skiing
You won't get hurt skiing if you don't fall
- Warren Miller
11
Skiing
I feel very confident in my skiing. I know I have a good chance to win any race I start.
- Ted Ligety
1
Basketball
As a coach, I'm never going to do anything to embarrass you. As a player, you can never do anything to embarrass the program
- Tom Crean
4
Boxing
He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me.
- Floyd Mayweather
8
Wrestling
I've always been a really hard critic of everything I do
- Big Show
7
Soccer
I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It's something I love doing
- David Beckham
9
Volleyball
Volleyball is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation – but most of all, of reciprocity – of teamwork. There is no way to freelance in volleyball.
- Marv Dunphy
3
Rowing
In rowing I found a sport that demanded some skill, granted, but placed a much higher premium on plain hard work and persistence.
- Harry Parker
6
Football
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
- Paul "Bear" Bryant
1
Hockey
In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.
- Carl Hagelin
1
Soccer
I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
- Ron White
1
Volleyball
Volleyball: Invented by men, perfected by women.
- Unknown
6
Baseball
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
- Babe Ruth
5
Volleyball
Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.
- Lisa Leslie
5
Hockey
Ice hockey players can walk on water.
- Unknown
1
Shooting
Once an Armyman, always an Armyman.
- Rajvardhan Singh Rathore
6
Shooting
When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
- Gagan Narang
24
Football
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
- Vince Lombardi
2
Boxing
If you work hard in training, the fight is easy.
- Manny Pacquiao
7
Wrestling
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- Unknown
4
Rugby
Rugby League is war without the frills.
- Anon.
1
Boxing
A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.
- Evander Holyfield
1
Baseball
With baseball, it's simple. There’s no mystery to what happens on the field because everything has a label – full count, earned run, perfect game – and there’s a certain amount of comfort in this terminology.
- Jennifer E. Smith
3
Golf
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golfball
- Jack Lemmon
4
Baseball
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
- Tommy Lasorda
3
Track & Field
To be number one, you have to train like you're number two.
- Maurice Greene
1
Boxing
The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.
- Thomas “Hitman” Hearns
1
Tennis
I hate to lose more than I love to win.
- Jimmy Connors
3
Basketball
My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed
- Bob Knight
1
Shooting
Everyone who is not happy must be shot.
- John le Carré
7
Badminton
I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
- Saina Nehwal
5
Tennis
I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.
- Goran Ivanisevic
4