RANDOM QUOTES

Cricket
Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented isn't anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.
- Virat Kohli
21
Rowing
When one rows, it is not the rowing which moves the ship, rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship
- Friedrich Nietzsche
14
Tennis
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe
2
Track & Field
I don't train to absorb the pain, I train to break the pain.
- Henry Rono
3
None
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
11
Tennis
Tennis just a game, family is forever.
- Serena Williams
2
Tennis
Learned during all my career to enjoy suffering
- Rafael Nadal
5
None
Never let your failures get to our heart and never let your success get to your head.
- Sachin Tendulkar
1
Basketball
I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began
- Bob Knight
2
Swimming
Your swim begins at the end of your comfort zone.
- Unknown
4
Swimming
I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.
- Leisl Jones
4
Boxing
People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.
- Muhammad Ali
1
Boxing
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
- Muhammad Ali
6
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
Whatever level you reach, getting better never stops.
- Sachin Tendulkar
15
Football
The harder you WORK, the harder it is to SURRENDER
- Marv Levy
9
Table Tennis
I am an ordinary person, it just happens that I have a special job
- Zhang Jike
2
Boxing
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
- Muhammad Ali
2
Hockey
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.
- Brad Park
1
Wrestling
It's better to be pissed off than pissed on
- Shawn Michaels
6
Hockey
When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.
- Joe Sakic
2
Track & Field
Track, it's not just a sport. It's our life.
- Unknown
2
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
Baseball
It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
- Mickey Mantle
6
Boxing
My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see boxers beat up on each other, but you cannot last long in professional boxing if you take a lot of punches.
- Wladimir Klitschko
1
Boxing
Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I'm going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me
- Oscar De La Hoya
3
Track & Field
Sports gives us all the ability to test ourselves mentally, physically and emotionally in a way no other aspect of life can.
- Dan O'Brien
3
Boxing
I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
- Muhammad Ali
1
Skiing
That's my perfect day: going skiing
- Caroline Dhavernas
3
Golf
Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
- P.G. Wodehouse
1
Shooting
We're taking only athletes who are medal hopefuls. Last time we won a lot of medals in shooting and lifting. We hope we can repeat our performance.
- Randhir Singh
3
Soccer
I don't want to tell my dreams, I want to show them.
- Cristiano Ronaldo
1
Cycling
Good morale in cycling comes from good legs.
- Sean Yates
10
Golf
Forget your opponents. Always play against par
- Sam Snead
10
Table Tennis
Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.
- Boris Johnson
11
Boxing
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
- Muhammad Ali
1
Basketball
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
- Pat Riley
1
Rugby
No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking.
- J.P.R. Williams
9
Hockey
Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.
- Mario Lemieux
2
Table Tennis
I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.
- Thelonious Monk
6
Volleyball
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Darrel Royal
4
Field Hockey
Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.
- Unknown
11
Cricket
The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music.
- Virat Kohli
7
Track & Field
Don't think about the start of the race, think about the ending.
- Usain Bolt
10
Wrestling
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
- Ross Perot
1
Volleyball
Volleyball — that sweaty, expensive, time-consuming habit. You gotta love it.
- Unknown
1
Soccer
Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer).
- Albert Camus
5
Golf
There's no game like golf: you go out with three friends, play eighteen holes, and come back with three enemies
- Unknown
7
Lacrosse
I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.
- Jack Nicklaus
1
Shooting
You do not cease to hunt because you get old, you get old because you have ceased to hunt.
- Unknown
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