RANDOM QUOTES

Cycling
You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you're glad to be there.
- Richard Virenque
1
Tennis
I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend. I wasn't ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that.
- Josh Brolin
1
Football
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
- John Madden
1
Baseball
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
- Robert Lee Frost
1
Soccer
You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
- Lionel Messi
10
Weightlifting
The value of people's opinions is usually inversely proportional to their desire for you to know them.
- Greg Everett
1
Volleyball
Pass the expectations, set the standards, and kill the competition.
- Unknown
4
Wrestling
At the end of the day, all I can be is me
- Roman Reigns
4
Football
I love me some me.
- Terrell Owens
2
Skiing
The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars' worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.
- P.J. O’Rourke
1
Skiing
I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs.
- Judah Friedlander
3
Boxing
Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
- Georges Carpentier
1
Rowing
You've got to be an extremely aggressive athlete, and you've got to keep the pressure on all the time you cannot - not once - start to think about, 'Gosh, it's getting pretty painful so I should start thinking about something else,' you've really got to focus.
- Fritz Hagerman
2
Swimming
At the start of each day, I remind myself, my toughest opponent is in the mirror.
- Ryan Lochte
6
Rowing
Coming together is a beginning; keeping togrther is progress; working together is success.
- Henry Ford
14
Rugby
They challenge, they hurt each other, they even fight, but how many do you see rolling on the pitch?
- Nemanja Vidic
1
Swimming
Be great. You never know who you're inspiring.
- Unknown
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
5
Rowing
Life is too short to have a bad row.
- Tim Brew
1
Boxing
A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.
- Sonny Liston
1
Baseball
It is the life-affirming genius of baseball that the short can pummel the tall, the rotund can make fools of the sleek, and no matter how far down you find yourself in the bottom of the ninth you can always pull out a miracle.
- Bill Vaughn
3
Football
We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.-The indomitable
- Brian Clough
2
Soccer
Well Kerry, you're 19 and you're a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself.
- Mike Gray.
1
Baseball
Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.
- Michael Lewis
1
Volleyball
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them. But do not let them master you.
- Hellen Keller
5
Tennis
Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when they're 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.
- Andy Roddick
2
Soccer
Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
- Xavi
1
Weightlifting
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
- Unknown
1
Basketball
The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions
- Brad Stevens
1
Soccer
Football's not like an electric light - you can't just flick the button and change from slow to quick.
- John Greig
1
Wrestling
If you've got the confidence and the work ethic, you can make any dream come true.
- Bret Hart
11
Swimming
Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.
- Liv Ullmann
1
Track & Field
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
- Carl Lewis
1
Hockey
The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
- Gary Bettman
1
Cricket
Playing with AB de Villiers is an absolute pleasure. He is the best in the world.
- Virat Kohli
3
Volleyball
Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.
- Marv Levy
10
Soccer
You only stop learning when you quit.
- Ruud Gullit
2
Football
I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.
- Craig Ferguson
1
Baseball
In high school I wrote an essay on baseball and my teacher told me I had to rewrite it on a more serious topic. So I wrote an essay about the World Series and my teacher gave up.
- Tucker Elliot
2
None
Coaches build teams, parents build players.
- Charles Smyth
3
Baseball
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
- Ted Williams
1
Basketball
A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
- Mike Krzyzewski
7
Field Hockey
Be so good that they can't ignore you
- Unknown
3
Soccer
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back… play for her.
- Mia Hamm
2
Basketball
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes
- Rick Pitino
4
Tennis
It is very important not to think about losing.
- Venus Williams
2
Shooting
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
- P.G. Wodehouse
5
Field Hockey
Sweat makes the green grass grow.
- Unknown
11
Boxing
If you practice hard, you can win every battle
- Manny Pacquiao
7
Football
I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.
- Jerry Rice
2