RANDOM QUOTES

Football
You FAIL all of the time. But you aren't a FAILURE until you start blaming someone else
- Bum Phillips
7
Hockey
The three important elements of hockey are: forecheck, backcheck and pay check.
- Gil Perreault
1
Hockey
You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.
- Guy Lafleur
5
Badminton
I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it - tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps.
- Matthew Gray Gubler
18
Baseball
A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
- Chuck Page
5
Swimming
Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.
- Michael Phelps
4
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
Tennis
I play each point like my life depends on it.
- Rafael Nadal
2
Football
When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge
- Terry Bradshaw
9
Field Hockey
Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.
- Unknown
11
Rugby
On female rugby teams – Everybody thinks we should have moustaches and hairy arses, but in fact you could put us all on the cover of Vogue.
- Helen Kirk
1
Wrestling
I can look at every one of my faults, see they're there, and go out and try to improve on it
- Big Show
8
Field Hockey
I think one of the things that is going to be difficult to replace is the leadership, knowing what the level of expectations in field hockey is and wanting to make a mark as a team.
- Patty Shea
3
Skiing
The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.
- Jimmy Carter
1
Badminton
In badminton, they use a lot from the wrist. But I use a lot from the shoulder.
- Li Na
12
Baseball
We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something.
- Jimmy Fallon
4
Track & Field
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the olympics in somebody's backyard.
- Jesse Owens
8
Volleyball
every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
- Unknown
12
Skiing
It's good to ski for fun, but I also want to win as many races as possible.
- Hermann Maier
2
Football
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.
- Herschel Walker
2
Baseball
Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake.
- David James Duncan
4
Football
Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.
- Peyton Manning
2
Shooting
Everyone who is not happy must be shot.
- John le Carré
7
Tennis
I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.
- Monica Seles
6
Cricket
I have failed more times than I have succeeded, but I never gave up, and will never give up, till my last breath, and that's what cricket has taught me.
- Yuvraj Singh
6
Track & Field
Easy is not a option..No days off..Never Quit..Be Fearless.. Talent you have Naturally.. Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work.
- Usain Bolt
15
Swimming
Confidence is the result of recognizing a pattern of excellence in what we are doing in the water.
- Unknown
6
Soccer
I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.
- Hope Solo
3
Cycling
Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.
- Eddy Merckx
1
Swimming
Everyone wants to be great, untill it's time to do what greatness requires.
- Unknown
5
Basketball
I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.
- Shaquille O’Neal
1
Swimming
If you think your sport is hard, try doing it while holding your breath.
- Unknown
1
Football
Most football players are temperamental. That's 90% temper and 10% mental.
- Doug Plank
3
Baseball
Be on time. Bust your butt. Play smart. And have some laughs along the way.
- Whitey Herzog
3
Soccer
Whoever knows only football doesn't even know anything about football
- Juan Manuel Lillo
4
Wrestling
Well, I'm wrestling alligators.
- Claire McCaskill
2
Swimming
At the start of each day, I remind myself, my toughest opponent is in the mirror.
- Ryan Lochte
6
None
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
21
Skiing
It's better to go skiing and think of God than go to church and think of sport
- Fridtjof Nansen
3
Football
Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
- Paul Bear Bryant
3
Lacrosse
Team is more important than talent
- Unknown
26
Basketball
A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.
- Jim Valvano
2
Football
The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
- Phyliss Diller
1
Basketball
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
8
Swimming
In the water, your only enemy is the clock.
- Unknown
1
Tennis
All I cared about in tennis was winning.
- Pete Sampras
3
Boxing
The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.
- Thomas “Hitman” Hearns
1
Swimming
If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.
- Michael Phelps
6
Cycling
Don't limit your challenges, challenge your limits.
- Jerry Dunn
8
Golf
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
- H.G. Wells
3