Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark McGwire

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

Mark McGwire

I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.

Mark McGwire

I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it.

Mark McGwire

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

Mark Emmert

To convert college sports into professional sports would be tantamount to converting it into minor league sports. And we know that in the U.S., minor league sports aren’t very successful either for fan support or for the fan experience.

Marilyn Monroe

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Nikki Giovanni

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

Nick Saban

In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.

Nick Saban

There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.

Nick Offerman

I made an executive decision in college when I learned how behind I was in the world of books, films, and music because of my rural upbringing. I really reduced the amount of time that sports took up in my life.I still have some Faulkner to get through.

Nick Hornby

There's no doubt that he's the biggest sports star in the world now. (on David Beckham)

Nick Hornby

I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations I share completely and uncritically.

Nick Hornby

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.

Mary Lou Retton

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

Mary Lou Retton

Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.

Mary Lou Retton

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

Mary McCarthy

Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts.

Marv Albert

To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, was a thrill for me. I dont think there was another team in any sport with that high level of athletes playing together.

Marv Albert

I feel very fortunate that I'm doing what I wanted to do from the third grade on. I became very interested in the sports broadcasting aspect even at that early age. I'd turn down the sound on the TV and do games in my house - and probably get everybody looking for me to go into a room and lock the door so they didn't have to hear it.

Marv Levy

World War II was a must win.

Marv Levy

Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.

Marvin Hagler

There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

Marvin Hagler

Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.

Ndamukong Suh

Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

Muhammad Ali

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

Muhammad Ali

I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

Muhammad Ali

This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.

Muhammad Ali

Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.

Muhammad Ali

Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.

Muhammad Ali

I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages

Muhammad Ali

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Muhammad Ali

Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.

Muhammad Ali

It's not bragging if you can back it up.