RANDOM QUOTES

Tennis
Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot, but it wasn't love because my first love was tennis.
- Boris Becker
2
Basketball
Everything negative — pressure, challenges — are all an opportunity for me to rise.
- Kobe Bryant
14
Rugby
He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.
- Ryan Giggs
1
Volleyball
If you don't succeed it doesn't mean you are a failure. If you do succeed it doesn't mean that you are king of the world.
- David Beard
6
Wrestling
No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more ‘humility training' than wrestling.
- James Leach
3
Volleyball
Having the chance to play sports growing up teaches you all kinds of life lessons. It gives young people confidence and instills in them motivation and drive to be the best one can be. It's absolutely invaluable.
- April Ross
2
Baseball
Pitch within yourself.
- Tom Seaver
8
Basketball
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
- Jim Valvano
1
Basketball
How competitive can you be without losing your discipline
- Doc Rivers
11
Cycling
If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles.
- Carl Sagan
2
Weightlifting
Great athletes recognize the difference between can't and unwilling to.
- Greg Everett
1
Boxing
There's no way a fighter should fight and put his life on the line, and a promoter makes more money than he makes
- Roy Jones Jr
3
Swimming
I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.
- Mark Spitz
1
Track & Field
Racing theaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go.
- PattiSue Plumer
3
Cricket
I don't think we choked this time. We never played well enough to choke.
- Craig Matthews
2
Swimming
I run, but boxing conditioning is different, so you have to get used to running in the ring. Boxing movements are very different. Swimming is one of the best because every single muscle is working. I swim a lot. I train very hard at things that mimic boxing. I have to do mostly sport-specific training, such as lots of sparring.
- Wladimir Klitschko
2
Golf
They say golf is like life... gold is more complicated than that
- Gardner Dickinson
5
Hockey
Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
- Wayne Gretzky
4
Boxing
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new
- Sugar Ray Leonard
9
Baseball
Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
- Ferguson Jenkins
4
Baseball
Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt.
- H.A. Dorfman
13
Baseball
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity
- Bill Veeck
4
Soccer
There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world – that's what I believe
- David Beckham
1
Swimming
At the start of each day, I remind myself, my toughest opponent is in the mirror.
- Ryan Lochte
6
None
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
- Muhammad Ali
3
Soccer
Fear is not a word in my football dictionary
- Jose Mourinho
3
Cricket
The expert in anything was once a beginner.
- Unknown
10
Swimming
When it feels tough. You're doing it right.
- Unknown
1
Badminton
I have learnt many things, but there's more to learn. Every day is a new start.
- P. V. Sindhu
8
Boxing
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.
- Muhammad Ali
1
Wrestling
Wrestling is such a competitive sport worldwide.
- Kurt Angle
2
Tennis
You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.
- Martina Navratilova
5
Wrestling
In professional wrestling, I'm sure in combat sports, there's always gonna be testosterone.
- Booker T
3
Lacrosse
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference between lacrosse success and lacrosse failure.
- Felicity Luckey
1
Hockey
Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.
- Mario Lemieux
2
Baseball
The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.
- Chuck Tanner
6
Wrestling
You do take a beating in professional wrestling. But I love it.
- Dave Bautista
1
Football
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
- Knute Rockne
1
Swimming
I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck.
- Megan Quann
2
Swimming
I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.
- Michael Phelps
1
Rowing
The best routes are the ones you haven't ridden.
- Unknown
4
Boxing
You are never strong enough where you don't need help
- Julio César Chávez
7
Baseball
A baseball manager is a necessary evil.
- George 'Sparky' Anderson
6
Tennis
You always want to win. That is why you play tennis because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.
- Roger Federer
6
Boxing
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
- Sugar Ray Leonard
3
Weightlifting
If you clean the weight first, you will have a much better chance of successfully completing the jerk
- Stan Bailey
9
Track & Field
To be a legend is easy, to become that legend takes hard work and pure dedication.
- Usain Bolt
2
Boxing
Never cry. Never complain. Just work
- Floyd Mayweather
10
Basketball
Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.
- Michael Jordan
3
Cycling
Truly, the bicycle is the most influential piece of product design ever.
- Hugh Pearman
1