RANDOM QUOTES

Tennis
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.
- Chris Evert
1
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a space game, in terms of spreading the offense and running the fast break. You can't really get that in the gym. We got double the grass time that we've had up to this point.
- Bob Hiester
2
Rugby
The only trophy we won this day, was the blood and sweat we left on the pitch.... and it was enough
- Unknown
4
Wrestling
If you've got the confidence and the work ethic, you can make any dream come true.
- Bret Hart
11
Volleyball
Extra discipline makes up for a lack of talent and a lack of discipline quickly siphons away extra talent, that's why it's frequently the most disciplined rather than the most gifted rise to the top
- Unknown
1
Skiing
I feel very confident in my skiing. I know I have a good chance to win any race I start.
- Ted Ligety
1
Volleyball
She turned her can'ts into cans and her dreams into plans.
- Unknown
4
Hockey
A month before the season, I don't order fries with my club sandwich.
- Mario Lemieux
1
Football
I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.
- Deacon Jones
1
Volleyball
I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids.
- Kerri Walsh Jennings
1
Rugby
Rugby League is a war without the frills.
- Anon
2
Shooting
You do not cease to hunt because you get old, you get old because you have ceased to hunt.
- Unknown
15
Basketball
You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.
- Morgan Wootten
1
Rugby
Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.
- Pierre Danos
1
Rugby
Players win games, teams win championships
- Unknown
6
Badminton
To train hard is the best way to become the best yourself.
- Chen Long
9
Shooting
I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.
- Peter Scott
5
Wrestling
I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.
- Dave Bautista
2
Volleyball
Volleyball is not just a sport, it's a way to express your anger without hurting someone.
- Unknown
1
Basketball
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special
- Jim Valvano
7
Tennis
Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
- Venus Williams
2
Cricket
My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows.
- Virat Kohli
5
Skiing
Skiing can be thought of as a control and guidance activity, sliding down on a varying surface
- David W. Murrie
1
Baseball
I see great things in baseball.
- Walt Whitman
1
Table Tennis
Before you learn the techniques, you must first learn how to control the ball
- Kong Linghui
5
Track & Field
I believe you make life what you want it to be; you can reach goals you never thought you could if you keep at it.
- Mike Shine
8
Baseball
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
- Lou Gehrig
5
Wrestling
I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.
- Ken Jeong
1
Cricket
You don't win or lose the games because of the 11 you select. You win or lose with that those 11 do on the field.
- Rahul Dravid
14
Baseball
But Baseball is one activity that is able to generate suspense and excitement on a national scale, just like war. And baseball can only be played in peace.
- David James Duncan
3
Hockey
That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes.
- Stu Grimson
1
Boxing
Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six
- Oscar De La Hoya
2
None
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
4
Weightlifting
I don't consider members of the federations to be my rivals. The world record is the rival I'm fighting.
- Lü Xiaojun
1
Baseball
It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. We have an obligation to the abilities we DO have, not the disability.
- Jim Abbott
2
Basketball
What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere
- Bill Russell
2
Hockey
Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.
- Guy Lafleur
2
Rugby
Forwards win games, back decide by how much
- Unknown
7
Lacrosse
The more time you spend in lacrosse circles, the more you feel like teaching is a really good option to have. I've done (lacrosse) camps for seven years now and I really enjoy teaching and working with kids.
- Colin Doyle
1
Baseball
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
- Babe Ruth
14
Baseball
I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw
- Willie Mays
6
Soccer
We all fall. The key is knowing how to rise.
- Hope Solo
13
Swimming
In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level.
- Elka Graham
1
Golf
When bad golf happens to good people It's your brain and not your game!
- Glenn Kessler
4
Wrestling
Look in the mirror; that's your competition.
- Unknown
4
Track & Field
Don't give up just because of what someone said. Use that as motivation to push harder.
- Unknown
9
Cricket
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
- RAHUL DRAVID
7
Rowing
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence. Therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
- Unknown
14
Track & Field
Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
- Jesse Owens
5
Baseball
Most of the greatest pitchers never pitched one. It's a combination of a lot of little accidents.
- Duane Decker
4