Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Krzyzewski

The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.

Mike Krzyzewski

I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

Paula Radcliffe

It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.

Paula Radcliffe

I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140.

Paula Radcliffe

I can't imagine living and not running.

Paula Radcliffe

Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.

Paula Poundstone

I don’t believe for a second that weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, that’s indecision.

Paul Walker

I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it.

Paul Walker

My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.

Peter Ueberroth

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

Peter Ueberroth

Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.

Peter Ueberroth

The integrity of the game is everything.

Peter Lerangis

It's a token for the arcade games at Laser Sport Time!" Dan hissed. "Uncle Alistair doesn't think so," Amy murmured. "He's a numismatist." "He takes his clothes off in public?" Dan said.

Terry Crews

The NFL culture, the sports culture, has decided that they are more valuable than women. I've heard people laugh about keeping their pimp hand strong and keeping her in control so that she knows her place. But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.

Terry Gross

And the rules were so clear, you could not deviate from that all. And I think it especially damaged my sisters because there was nothing they could do to get my father's attention, to win his approval. They could not play sports. They could not do these other things. They could not be tough. They could not be macho. And so I think they suffered just from sheer neglect if nothing else.

Terry Bradshaw

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

Teddy Sears

My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.

Teddy Sheringham

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.

Teddy Atlas

Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.

Ted Williams

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

Ted Williams

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

Ted Williams

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

Ted Williams

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

Ted Williams

You've got to be ready for the fastball.

Ted Williams

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

Ted Williams

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Temple Grandin

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.

Ted McGinley

I would consider it the greatest experience of my life, it's the experience that made me a man, that taught me so many life lessons that you get from sport, ones that I've been able to pass down. (It was) invaluable, beyond words, got me through school, high school, and college, it was the greatest gift I gave myself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Randeep Hooda

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

Randeep Hooda

Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.

Shania Twain

Ain't nothing better, we beat the odds together.

Shania Twain

I enjoy sports in person.