RANDOM QUOTES

Swimming
I try and just relax and reflect on all the work I've done in the past season. That's one of the most important things, remembering your goals and how to swim your races. It's also important to get your mind off racing before you race sometimes
- Ian Crocker
1
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
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
Baseball
When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.
- Gary Sheffield
1
Baseball
The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
- Tommy Lasorda
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
Football
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
- Don Shula
2
Skiing
If we admit it or not, skiing is a little bit of show biz.
- Willy Bogner, Jr.
1
Hockey
Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.
- Wayne Gretzky
1
Baseball
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
- Hank Aaron
2
Badminton
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
- Unknown
10
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
Baseball
I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw
- Willie Mays
6
Football
He is the only man I ever saw who ran his own interference.
- Steve Owen
5
Basketball
I’ve never lost a game. I just ran out of time.
- Michael Jordan
1
Cycling
It never gets easier, you just go faster
- Greg LeMond
3
Rugby
I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules. Anyway, you're on the same wavelength as the referees.
- Jonathan Davies
10
Basketball
X & O's aren’t worth a damn without a team. If your team isn’t with you it doesn’t matter what you draw up.
- Hubie Brown
6
Rugby
Rubgy was invented by men. Perfected by women.
- Unknown
4
Wrestling
Anyone can wrestle until they are tired.
- Cael Sanderson
2
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
Cycling
I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.
- Michelle Pfeiffer
1
Boxing
A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.
- Evander Holyfield
1
Skiing
There are not many places in the world where you can get to the beach in an hour, the desert in two hours and snowboarding or skiing in three hours. You can do all that in California.
- Alex Pettyfer
1
Basketball
Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity.
- Arnold Henry
2
Swimming
Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong.
- Unknown
5
Swimming
For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
- Ian Thorpe
1
Badminton
The easiest day was yesterday. Practice winning every day.
- Unknown
4
Weightlifting
I won't let anyone out work me.
- Rich Froning
3
Tennis
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
- Arthur Ashe
18
Weightlifting
I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
- Jack LaLanne
1
Rowing
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
- Nancy Greene
2
Shooting
Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
- Gagan Narang
22
Soccer
I have to keep working hard and playing well because I don't like to be second or third: they're the worst places to be.
- Paul Pogba
3
Baseball
I loved the game. I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. I never enjoyed it. All hard work all the time.
- Carl Yastrzemski
2
Boxing
I always feel like there's no fighter that I can't figure out
- Roy Jones Jr
2
Basketball
To go from where you are to where you want to be: you have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it
- Jim Valvano
7
Track & Field
You can't flirt with the track. You must marry it.
- Bill Easton
2
Cycling
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Bernard Hinault
1
Wrestling
Since the day I was born, wrestling has sustained me and my family. It's the way my father fed me; it's the way I feed my kids. More importantly, wrestling is my greatest release. It's been such a blessing for me. I can step into the ring and let it all go - all my anger, all my frustration, all my pain.
- Eddie Guerrero
3
Wrestling
Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.
- William Baldwin
1
Wrestling
Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied
- Dwayne Johnson
10
Tennis
There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.
- Amelie Mauresmo
1
Tennis
Tennis goals are tennis dreams with deadlines.
- Felicity Luckey
2
Swimming
I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go.
- Katie Hoff
1
Basketball
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
- Red Auerbach
1
Skiing
I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slope style skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd.
- Nick Goepper
2
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
Skiing
I'm never tired of winning, and I'm never tired of skiing.
- Lindsey Vonn
1
Baseball
I can't say that I've really achieved what I really want to be.
- Mike Trout
1