RANDOM QUOTES

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
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
The will to win is more important than the skill to win. It is possible to achieve only what you actively pursue. Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore, I am. Keep your head high and work hard every day, because you'll never get that day back.
- Lloy Ball
2
None
History doesn't write itself.
- Mark Fleming
12
Cycling
When your legs scream stop and your lungs are bursting, that's when it starts. That's the hurt locker. Winners love it in there.
- Chris McCormack
2
Field Hockey
Sweat makes the green grass grow.
- Unknown
11
Swimming
I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.
- Mark Spitz
1
Cycling
Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on.
- David Byrne
1
Volleyball
I wish love was like volleyball. You call ‘MINE' and everyone backs off.
- Unknown
4
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is like one of those diseases that comes through the family and infects everybody. It caught every one of us.
- Ted Wolford
3
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is fast paced and I like fast paced games. It's demanding physically and has the hardest conditioning of any sport. You are always running if you are not sprinting. It's constant movement.
- Aaron Gray
2
Football
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
- Joe Namath
1
Golf
Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything
- Jack Nicklaus
10
Hockey
I feel honored and privileged to have represented the USA program over the past 16 years. USA Hockey will always be a part of me and I will cherish the experiences and memories with this team.
- Angela Ruggiero
1
Wrestling
Hollywood's great, but wrestling is my first love.
- Triple H
1
Hockey
The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.
- Harry Sinden
3
Baseball
Baseball gives a growing boy self-pose and self-reliance
- Al Spalding
6
Boxing
I'm not God, but I am something similar.
- Roberto Duran
1
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
14
Basketball
When you're tired, sore, and can't do more, that’s the time to do more
- Tim Grover
3
Swimming
With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes an imagination.
- Michael Phelps
2
Rowing
Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.
- Brad Alan Lewis
8
Baseball
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
- Joe Garagiola
1
Basketball
One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players' lives
- Rick Majerus
3
Golf
There are no shortcuts on the quest for perfection.
- Ben Hogan
1
Boxing
I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds
- Oscar De La Hoya
5
Lacrosse
Twenty years ago people thought they were fishing nets and all sorts of things when you brought out a lacrosse stick. Now almost everywhere you go, people have heard of it, they’ve seen it.
- Gary Gait
9
Soccer
If I can make an impact, I want to help some kids and bridge the gap between soccer and celebrity in America.
- Ethan Zohn
1
Lacrosse
There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional.
- Jim Brown
4
Football
I'm a light eater. As soon as it's light, I start to eat.
- Art Donovan
2
Baseball
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theatre, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
- Al Lopez
2
Wrestling
I have had the greatest wrestling career in the history of pro wrestling.
- Ric Flair
1
Tennis
One win, and you are on top of the world. Lose in the first round the next tournament, you are back to reality.
- Sania Mirza
2
Tennis
I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.
- Serena Williams
7
Cricket
Playing with AB de Villiers is an absolute pleasure. He is the best in the world.
- Virat Kohli
3
Soccer
Life is like a game of soccer. You need goals. If there are no goals in your life then you can't win
- Unknown
12
Swimming
Be stubborn about your goals and flexible in your methods.
- Unknown
3
Wrestling
When the day comes when you don't believe in yourself, there's the door. Get the hell out!
- John Cena
1
Basketball
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
- Pat Riley
1
Hockey
By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy.
- Wayne Gretzky
1
Soccer
I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
- Wayne Rooney
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
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
Table Tennis
Focus and pay full attention to play in a match is the difference between a champion and a person who almost became a champion
- Ma Long
11
Track & Field
Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.
- Tom Fleming
5
Soccer
Choose the best players for every position and you'll end up not with a strong 11, but with 11 strong 1's
- Johan Cruyff
7
Golf
You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.
- Hale Irwin
1
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
Tennis
Winning is a way of expressing yourself.
- Boris Becker
2
Swimming
I found something I love… And never gave up.
- Michael Phelps
2