top of page
.png){kind=small}
Sports Quotes
"Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball."
15
"I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee."
15
"I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that."
14
"I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing."
14
"It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game."
13
"They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport."
13
"The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything."
12
"I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up."
12
"Yep, I'll stay a Brisbane Lion, you've heard it first."
12
"I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them."
12
"I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream."
12
"Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine."
11
"Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions."
11
"Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor."
11
"The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one."
11
"One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while."
11
"They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it."
11
"I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting."
11
"I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German."
11
"We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears."
11
"Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick."
10
"He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing."
10
"The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages."
10
"One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams."
10
bottom of page