RANDOM QUOTES

Basketball
You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves
- Phil Jackson
7
Basketball
The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession
- Brad Stevens
9
Wrestling
There are no losers in wrestling, just winners and learners.
- Unknown
5
Golf
Always make a total effort. Even when the odds are stacked against you.
- Arnold Palmer
10
Wrestling
Everything about me is favored towards wrestling
- Roman Reigns
4
Hockey
Hockey is the original extreme sport.
- Tom Ward
1
Wrestling
Hollywood's great, but wrestling is my first love.
- Triple H
1
Rugby
Every time I went to tackle him, Horrocks went one way, Taylor went the other, and all I got was the bloody hyphen.
- Nick England
12
Basketball
I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them
- Pete Carril
4
Volleyball
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.
- Willie Mays
4
Tennis
To be a better tennis player than you've ever been, you have to do something you've never done.
- Felicity Luckey
2
Basketball
I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title
- Phil Jackson
7
Cycling
You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you're glad to be there.
- Richard Virenque
1
Golf
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
- H. G. Wells
1
Rowing
If the plan doesn't work, change the plan but never the goal.
- Unknown
2
Weightlifting
It's important to understand what hard work really means.
- Unknown
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
God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it
- Ronaldinho
4
None
Whether you like it or not, learn to love it, because its the best thing going. Wooooo!
- Ric Flair
2
Soccer
You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.
- Emanuel Steward
4
Swimming
This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.
- Michael Phelps
1
Golf
All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.
- Ken Venturi
1
Tennis
Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.
- Novak Djokovic
6
Golf
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
- Tiger Woods
1
Boxing
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
- George Foreman
1
Baseball
I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
- Yogi Berra
1
Track & Field
Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out.
- Alfred A. Montapert
2
Cricket
I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.
- Ricky Ponting
6
Golf
Every shot counts. The three-foot putt is as important as the 300 yard drive.
- Henry Cotton
5
Hockey
The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
- Gary Bettman
1
Rugby
I'd like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.
- Nick Easter
3
Baseball
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
- Rogers Hornsby
1
Track & Field
I believe you make life what you want it to be; you can reach goals you never thought you could if you keep at it.
- Mike Shine
8
Rugby
In 1823, William Webb Ellis first picked up the ball in his arms and ran with it. And for the next 156 years forwards have been trying to work out why.
- Sir Tasker Watkins
1
Baseball
The great hitters use the whole field, and that's a goal of mine.
- Mookie Betts
4
Basketball
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
1
Wrestling
Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
- Sabine Baring-Gould
1
Soccer
What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange.
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
1
Hockey
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
- Gordie Howe
3
Boxing
In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.
- Lennox Lewis
1
Skiing
If I don't win, it's because of something I did with my skiing, and if I do win it's because of something I did with my skiing.
- Mikaela Shiffrin
1
Swimming
Confidence is the result of recognizing a pattern of excellence in what we are doing in the water.
- Unknown
6
Field Hockey
If you can't play nice, play field hockey.
- Unknown
5
Tennis
I want my tennis to speak for everything.
- Maria Sharapova
4
Weightlifting
The real secret to winning arguments is keeping your mouth shut unless you know what you're talking about.
- Greg Everett
1
Baseball
If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
- Derek Jeter
1
Volleyball
If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.
- Charles Haley
3
Football
No, we believed in ourselves all year. That's the position you want to be in.
- Eli Manning
1
Swimming
I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.
- Amanda Beard
1
Table Tennis
Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure
- Zhang Jike
4