RANDOM QUOTES

Track & Field
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
- Wilma Rudolph
3
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
Golf
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
- Bobby Jones
5
Weightlifting
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
- Max Beerbohm
1
Rowing
The pain in your legs is a hell of a long way from your heart.
- Unknown
2
Cycling
To me, it doesn't matter whether it's raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I'm riding a bike I know I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
- Mark Cavendish
2
Soccer
It just comes down to who wins the most 1-on-1's. That will determine who wins the match
- Sir Alex Ferguson
2
Weightlifting
What happened yesterday no longer matters. Today's another day. So get on track & move closer to your dreams & goals.
- Unknown
10
Track & Field
Worrying gets you nowhere. if you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.
- Usain Bolt
1
Cricket
It's not the team with best players that win. It's with players with the best team that wins!!!
- Unknown
26
Track & Field
Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle.
- Sanya Richards-Ross
16
Wrestling
I don't want to spoil this for anybody but wrestling, sports entertainment, is 'pre-determined.
- Diamond Dallas Page
2
Soccer
Sometimes in soccer you have to score goals.
- Thierry Henry
1
None
Why be second best at anything?
- Paul Heyman
1
Rugby
They challenge, they hurt each other, they even fight, but how many do you see rolling on the pitch?
- Nemanja Vidic
1
Volleyball
The key is that I control my life; my life doesn't control me.
- Gabrielle Reece
1
Table Tennis
Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.
- Boris Johnson
11
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
Badminton
Serve it, smash it, win it, love it!
- Unknown
1
Badminton
Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play measurement movement
- Aamir Khan
2
Tennis
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
- Arthur Ashe
16
Tennis
I never look back, I look forward.
- Steffi Graf
2
Baseball
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian
- H. L. Mencken
3
Track & Field
All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.
- Brendan Foster
12
Baseball
Sandor Boatly had never guessed that, properly played, baseball consisted of mathematics, geometry, art, philosophy, ballet, and carnival, all intertwined like the mystical ribbons of color in a rainbow.
- W.P. Kinsella
4
Rugby
Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.
- Joe Theismann
2
Skiing
I try to keep fit, as it's better for both skiing and plastering
- Eddie the Eagle
7
Baseball
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
- Babe Ruth
4
Baseball
When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
- Joe DiMaggio
7
Lacrosse
Some battles are to the death, others just feel that way
- Unknown
8
Soccer
You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football – for me, at least.
- Xavi
5
Rugby
The only trophy we won this day, was the blood and sweat we left on the pitch.... and it was enough
- Unknown
4
Skiing
There are certain things black people just don't do, OK? Skiing is one of them
- Reggie Miller
1
Hockey
Not every victory shows up on the soreboard.
- Unknown
7
Lacrosse
WIN together. LOSE together. PLAY together. STAY together.
- Unknown
17
Swimming
Swimming isn't everything, winning is.
- Mark Spitz
2
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
Golf
My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.
- Bing Crosby
3
Badminton
I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
- Saina Nehwal
4
Table Tennis
When you are in trouble, you can't escape. You have to face it. Otherwise, you will lose
- Ma Lin
10
Football
Football is like life. It requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
13
Basketball
I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game
- Dr Jack Ramsay
1
Basketball
Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court
- Bob Knight
1
Shooting
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but.
- Abhinav Bindra
3
Soccer
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
- Roy Keane
6
Cricket
The true test of any cricketer's character is how he reacts when the going gets tough, when it's time to dig in.
- Michael Holding
7
Cricket
Keep calm and play cricket.
- Unknown
1
None
Only passions. great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
- Zhang Jike
3
Weightlifting
Have you ever noticed an athlete in the weight room who is built like Tarzan, yet lifts weights better suited for Jane? Yet,there are other athletes who are every bit as strong and functional as they look
- Joe DeFranco
1
Cricket
Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
- George Mikes
10