RANDOM QUOTES

Tennis
I have no sense of humor about losing
- Rafael Nadal
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Baseball
If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.
- Bill Veeck
5
Hockey
Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.
- George Vecsey
4
Skiing
The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness.
- Siri Hustvedt
1
Soccer
If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one. If you're going to have a dream, dream big.
- Sir Alex Ferguson
4
Weightlifting
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
- Max Beerbohm
1
Swimming
I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.
- Leisl Jones
2
Baseball
Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.
- Tim McCarver
2
Swimming
Confidence is the result of recognizing a pattern of excellence in what we are doing in the water.
- Unknown
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Football
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
- Lou Holtz
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Hockey
People would say,'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.'
- Hayley Wickenheiser
9
Wrestling
In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.
- Mickey Rourke
1
Football
I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.
- Joe Namath
1
Table Tennis
Stress is the best polygraph. How well your playing skill will be revealed when you are under pressure
- Liu Chengmin
10
Skiing
I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one. But sometimes it's not so bad.
- Lindsey Vonn
2
Soccer
God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it
- Ronaldinho
4
Basketball
I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
- Larry the Cable Guy
3
Boxing
My goal is to unify the division. Whoever got that belt, that's who I want
- Deontay Wilder
3
Basketball
Don't worry about being cool. Worry about being the best .
- Jeff Van Gundy
1
Basketball
I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots
- Doc Rivers
1
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is like one of those diseases that comes through the family and infects everybody. It caught every one of us.
- Ted Wolford
3
Boxing
When people say I can't or I musn't, I always say I can and I will
- Oscar De La Hoya
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Basketball
What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
- Bob Knight
3
Swimming
Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves…But it does have everything to do with having the vision to dream, the courage to recover from adversity and the determination never to be shifted from your goal.
- Kieran Perkins
1
Baseball
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theatre, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
- Al Lopez
2
Basketball
Never let fundamentals and building skills take a backseat to game planning. Game plans win games. Fundamentals win championships
- Tom Crean
4
Swimming
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.
- Jerry Saltz
1
Basketball
Everything negative — pressure, challenges — are all an opportunity for me to rise.
- Kobe Bryant
15
Track & Field
I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
- Jesse Owens
3
Wrestling
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
- Ross Perot
1
Cricket
Focus on your goal and don't look in any direction but ahead.
- Rohit Sharma
12
Volleyball
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
- Gabrielle Reece
4
Football
I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.
- Jack Tatum
2
Basketball
You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game.
- John Calipari
1
Boxing
I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life
- Oscar De La Hoya
7
Table Tennis
If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis.
- Pierre Berbizier
8
Boxing
Show me an undefeated fighter and I'll show a guy who's never fought anybody.
- Whitey Bimstein
2
Cycling
The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.
- Unknown
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Golf
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
- P.G. Wodehouse
1
Swimming
We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.
- Gail Devers
1
Soccer
My dad always taught me to never be satisfied: to want more and know that what is done is done. That was his way of seeing the game.
- Thierry Henry
1
Baseball
You never know what’s going to happen… And that’s the fun of it!! That’s what baseball's all about!!
- Keiichi Arawi
4
Cricket
No matter how hot the fire burns, a protea always survives.
- AB Devilliers
14
Wrestling
Respect your opponents, but don't ever fear them.
- Unknown
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Basketball
Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals
- Dr Jack Ramsay
1
Soccer
If you do not believe you can do it, then you have no chance at all.
- Arsene Wenger
10
Baseball
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
- Robert Lee Frost
1
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
Baseball
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing your whole life.
- Mickey Mantle
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Skiing
In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.
- Diane Ackerman
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