Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vince Lombardi

If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

Vince Lombardi

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

Vince Lombardi

Winning isn't everything, but striving to win is.

Vince Lombardi

I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'

Vince Lombardi

I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.

Vince Lombardi

If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.

Vince Lombardi

When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

Vince Lombardi

Live as if you were living already for the second time.

Vince Lombardi

We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.

Vince Lombardi

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Vince Lombardi

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Vijender Singh

I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

Vijender Singh

Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

Vijender Singh

I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

Sadaharu Oh

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

Sachin Tendulkar

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

Sachin Tendulkar

Let us celebrate the spirit of sport through the National Games

Sachin Tendulkar

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

Sachin Tendulkar

I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

Sachin Tendulkar

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

Sachin Tendulkar

Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.

Sachin Tendulkar

It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

Sachin Tendulkar

The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

Sachin Tendulkar

When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

Sachin Tendulkar

Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

Sachin Tendulkar

Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.

Sachin Tendulkar

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

Sachin Tendulkar

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

I think we have really integrated well around Manchester. This is the place where we feel at home. We like it here, we love the English way of life and we prefer it much, much more than the south of Europe.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

I personally think that we can win the World Cup. We are improving with every game. With such a young average age in the squad we can only carry on improving.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

People say it is part of the game. You win some, you lose some. But not for me.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.