Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Sinden

It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose.

Frank Zappa

lf you’re going to deal with reality, you’re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an individual. If you wanna grow up, which most people don’t, the thing to do is take responsibility for your own reality and deal with it on your own terms. Don’t expect that because you pay some money to somebody else or take a pledge or join a club or run down the street or wear a special bunch of clothes or play a certain sport or even drink Perrier water, it’s going to take care of everything for you.

Fred Perry

To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

Fred Perry

I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.

George Gregan

The aspect of sport that you learn is that you have your good times and your bad times, but you share it with great people.

Haile Gebrselassie

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

Haile Gebrselassie

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

Haile Gebrselassie

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

Haile Gebrselassie

Some people start a sport just to reduce weight, or some say, 'My doctor ordered me to run and do exercise', and for others, they run for completely different benefits. But it is not like that with sport. We need to eat, we need to rest, but also we need to run.

Greg Maddux

I don't care if we're out of it or not, if I've got a chance to pitch, I want to.

Greg Maddux

I look forward to another good year next year. It would be nice to win, too.

Greg Maddux

I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back.

Greg Maddux

I would love to try to win another game. Obviously, it's more fun when you win. I'd rather try and not win than not try at all.

Greg Norman

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

Greg Norman

I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.

Greg Norman

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

Graham Taylor

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

Jim Brown

Lacrosse is probably the best sport I ever played.

Jessica Biel

I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.

Jessica Alba

Free driving is like an extreme sports version of snorkeling, ... That's about 50 feet deep. And basically what you do is you hold your breath and you wear a weight belt and go down as fast as possible and hold your breath for minutes at a time.

Howard Schultz

Sports was a great equalizer. It didn't have color. It didn't matter whether you were rich or poor, black or white. It really shaped me in many ways to be able to deal with a lot of different personalities and different cultures. Sports were the common thread.

Howard Schultz

My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy writer, and she's at film school. I discouraged both of them early on from getting involved in Starbucks. I didn't think it would be fair; plus, they didn't have any interest anyway.

Howard Cosell

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

Howard Cosell

Sports is the toy department of human life.

Howard Cosell

Sports is human life in microcosm.

Howard Cosell

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

Ian Thorpe

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

Ian Thorpe

I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the extent that a lot of things can be thrown at me, but it's about how much I am prepared to let them affect me

Ian Thorpe

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

Ice T

A lot of times people would offer me movies and, because I'm a car freak, I'd look in a magazine and say, 'How much is this car? If you give me this car I'll show up and do the movie' I call 'em 'sports car flicks'.

Ice T

The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.

Ice Cube

Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.

Ice Cube

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.