RANDOM QUOTES

Lacrosse
Our goal was to bring lacrosse to Marion County. It's different from football, basketball and soccer. It's something new here. The game is very exciting and it moves quickly.
- Yvonne Smith
2
Football
The harder you WORK, the harder it is to SURRENDER
- Marv Levy
9
Basketball
Leaders are interested in finding the best way rather than having their own way.
- John Wooden
1
Track & Field
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
- Steve Prefontaine
1
Cricket
I may not be the strongest. I may not be the fastest. But you can bet I work my hardest.
- Unknown
5
Basketball
Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract
- Don Meyer
1
Baseball
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity
- Bill Veeck
4
Volleyball
Bump, set, spike it - That's the way we like it.
- Unknown
4
Boxing
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
1
Swimming
A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.
- Melody Carlson
2
Hockey
I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.
- Vincent Piazza
2
Boxing
If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don't give up.”
- Mary Kom
12
Boxing
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
- Jack Handy
2
Swimming
Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.
- Liv Ullmann
1
Baseball
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
- Tommy Lasorda
3
Volleyball
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
- Newt Gingrich
1
Cycling
Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.
- Miguel Indurain
1
Swimming
Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.
- Ric Keller
1
Skiing
Skiing is the only sport where you spend and arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg
- Unknown
11
Boxing
In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.
- Lennox Lewis
1
Lacrosse
He's got a lot of talent and has been playing lacrosse four or five years. He's got to play big for us, and he does. He has a ton of heart. He moves well in the cage and he's not afraid of anything.
- Dale Nalls
2
Rugby
PAIN is your friend, it reminds you, you are still ALIVE
- Unknown
4
Boxing
When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
- Mike Tyson
1
Baseball
Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.
- Woodie Held
1
Volleyball
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Darrel Royal
4
Soccer
I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.
- Mark Viduka
3
Soccer
You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough.
- Lionel Messi
7
Soccer
I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles. I want to achieve things
- Paul Pogba
3
Hockey
Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be.
- Wayne Gretzky
11
Swimming
To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
- Bear Grylls
1
Track & Field
If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough.
- Steve Jones
8
Hockey
Whether you're trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I've always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it's as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.
- Sidney Crosby
6
Cricket
What a champ AB de Villiers. Incredible skill and execution.
- Russel Arnold
2
Tennis
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day.
- Andre Agassi
5
Basketball
Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone
- Bob Knight
1
Basketball
When you're tired, sore, and can't do more, that’s the time to do more
- Tim Grover
3
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
Volleyball
Volleyball rules are simple. If it is on the floor, pick it up and get it into the air. If it is in the air, keep it off the floor.
- John Kessel
2
Golf
The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying, 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life'.
- Tiger Woods
2
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
Swimming
I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.
- Leisl Jones
2
Volleyball
It may be hard work, but volleyball is worth it. Why, you ask. You can hit people in the face and not get in trouble.
- Unknown
1
Lacrosse
I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.
- Will McDonough
6
Track & Field
Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle.
- Sanya Richards-Ross
17
Swimming
I swan the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical, I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.
- Ian Thorpe
2
Football
Some guys need to see things on a grease board, ... I like when you can see it in your mind. And that's what Marvin does, too. He visualizes. He sees things in his mind so well.
- Peyton Manning
3
Lacrosse
You will agree that the Duke Lacrosse team raped and damaged or whatever, even though it didn't happen. You will be made to agree.
- Rush Limbaugh
1
None
Only passions. great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
- Zhang Jike
3
Cycling
The bicycle has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else in the world.
- Susan B Anthony
6
Basketball
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
- Michael Jordan
19