RANDOM QUOTES

Wrestling
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
- Unknown
4
Baseball
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
- Bryant Gumbel
1
Rowing
In rowing, as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The racer does not think of limits, only the race.
- Jim Dietz
17
Golf
Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not
- Jack Nicklaus
7
Soccer
Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
- Arsene Wenger
9
Boxing
When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.
- Jack Dempsey
1
Boxing
Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.
- Roberto Duran
1
Basketball
This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win.
- James Harden
6
Basketball
The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
- Bob Knight
2
Rowing
A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do so you can be who you've always wanted to be.
- Unknown
7
Hockey
For me, hockey by far the most fun sport to go and watch live and be part of. I just don't know why it doesn't translate as well on TV.
- Tom Glavine
3
Cricket
Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.
- Paul Hogan
4
Basketball
A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players see situations before they happen so they can be prepared
- Dr Jack Ramsay
1
Rowing
Real athletes row. Everyone else just plays games.
- Unknown
13
Cycling
Pedal harder and don't brake.
- Unknown
1
Lacrosse
I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand.
- Judah Friedlander
10
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
Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls.
- Lucy Powell
1
Badminton
When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?
- Rob Sheffield
1
Baseball
I just try to do whatever I can to win the game.
- Mookie Betts
2
Golf
They say golf is like life... gold is more complicated than that
- Gardner Dickinson
5
Rugby
I don't know why prop forwards play rugby.
- Lionel Weston
1
Cricket
Victory is remembered for at most two decades: an act of good sportsmanship is remembered for a lifetime.
- Unknown
10
Volleyball
What you do when no one else is looking will determine how good you'll be.
- Anson Dorrance
2
Cricket
We just want to get back to playing good cricket and make sure we play them on skill and get the emotion out of it.
- Steve Smith
3
Basketball
To win the big games you must get to the free throw line, and then you must make them
- Rick Majerus
3
Hockey
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
- Wayne Gretzky
7
Football
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
- Vincent Edward Jackson
6
Volleyball
On beach volleyball: You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.
- Kerri Walsh Jennings
3
Track & Field
I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
8
Skiing
I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it.
- Lindsey Vonn
1
Football
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
- Joe Namath
7
Volleyball
Do it with passion or not at all.
- Unknown
1
Baseball
Baseball is also a game of balance.
- Stephen King
3
Cycling
The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.
- William Saroyan
1
Boxing
Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches
- Roberto Duran
9
Cricket
Focus on your goal and don't look in any direction but ahead.
- Rohit Sharma
13
Swimming
Be patient. Sometimes you have to go through the worst to get the best.
- Unknown
3
Badminton
Keep calm and smash hard.
- Unknown
1
Golf
Competitive sports are played mainly on a five-and-a-half inch court, the space between your ears.
- Bobby Jones
9
None
Only passions. great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
- Zhang Jike
3
Cricket
Umpire Eddie Nichols is a man who cannot find his own buttocks with his two hands
- Navjot Sidhu
3
Football
He is the only man I ever saw who ran his own interference.
- Steve Owen
5
Rowing
Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts.
- Roger Moore
2
Golf
All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.
- Ken Venturi
1
Football
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
- Don Shula
2
Volleyball
A good team can win a volleyball game when they are ahead, a great team can win when they are behind.
- Unknown
5
Baseball
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
- Hank Aaron
2
Basketball
The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.
- Tim Duncan
1
Basketball
You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
- Don Meyer
1