Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ashton Eaton

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

Arthur Ashe

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Jamie Foxx

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Carroll Shelby

In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'

Charles Barkley

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

Jason Collins

I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, 'I'm different.' If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand.

Bobby Knight

Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.

Bobby Knight

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Bruce Dickinson

I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.

Gianluca Vialli

You should take your time and do it now and again, like watching football

Brett Favre

I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

Charles Kelley

I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.

Bobby Robson

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

Bobby Charlton

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

Edward Abbey

Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

Bart Starr

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

Mark Rose

(Douglas is a young football team. They're going to throw everything they've got at you.

Joe Schwarz

Don't get me wrong, ... I was on the football team. I didn't play much.

Matt Young

The whole idea of designing a vessel like a sub in my first year of college really interested me.

Derrick Bell

I live to harass white folks.

Dennis Prager

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

Brad Dancer

Duke really had a fantastic crowd and made it tough for us to get a win on the road. It was a great environment for college tennis and I am really proud of the way our guys competed tonight.

Nicki Harrington

At that rate, it would take 30 years to get the college renovated. By that time, it would start all over again.

Mike Edwards

At the college and university level, poker is pretty much the hottest thing going.

E. Hicks

At 19 or 20 in Junior College I had a friend who was strumming a guitar and getting into folk, and I wanted to do that too.

Linda Johnsrud

(Community college students) may be more likely to respond to the marketplace.

Liang Yanfang

Computers have opened my eyes and helped my study. And now I have a dream to go to college in a large city.