Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lionel Messi

One of the Arsenal players came up to me afterwards and said it had been an honor to be on the same pitch as me. I thought, My God, that is a great thing to say when your team has just lost.

Lionel Messi

I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don't think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things.

Lionel Messi

The Barcelona youth program is one of the best in the world. As a kid, they teach you not to play to win, but to grow in ability as a player.

Lionel Messi

My family was always present when I needed them and sometimes felt even stronger emotions than me.

Lionel Messi

You have got to love the game.

Lionel Messi

I still have a lot of room for improvement. For example, I want to shoot equally well with both feet.

Lionel Messi

I know how important it is to have a helping hand. In my childhood I had difficult times because of hormonal problems. If I hadn't had support, I wouldn't have been able to fulfill my dreams.

Lionel Messi

Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.

Lionel Messi

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

Lionel Messi

I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will leave football.

Lionel Messi

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

Lionel Messi

The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Like I always say, one doesn't know what can happen in the future, but if it were up to me to decide, I would stay at Barcelona for the rest of my career.

Lionel Messi

Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.

Lionel Messi

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

Lionel Messi

At Barca we trained every day with the ball. I hardly even took a step running without a ball at my feet.

Lionel Messi

I don't need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet and I'll show you what I can do.

Linford Christie

My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.

Linford Christie

When you see athletes like me win gold medals, you only see the finished product, you dont see the real effort that the likes of Ron have put into making that product. Without the Ron Roddans of this world, you would have no sport.

Linford Christie

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.

Lindsey Vonn

Roger Federer and my boyfriend, Tiger Woods, inspire me. It's incredible what they've done in their respective sports, especially Roger. He is the nicest and humblest guy. You would never know that he's the best tennis player of all time. And Tiger is so mentally tough. He can block everything completely out and stay in the moment.

Lindsey Vonn

My goal, for almost my entire career, has been to promote ski racing not just in America, but across the world. I think it's an amazing sport. I am happy to be an ambassador for the next Olympics and I will do my best to honour the Olympics spirit and to hopefully encourage kids to participate in sports, especially in Asia and Korea and I am looking forward to an amazing Olympics.

Lindsey Vonn

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

Lindsey Vonn

An overall title is one of the biggest things you can win in our sport.

Linus Torvalds

The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal.

Lindsey Shaw

The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.

Lindsey Vonn

It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.

Lindsey Vonn

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

Lindsay Davenport

If you go to Australia, the Australian Open is on all day long on network TV. There's no way CBS, NBC and ABC would do that. They only show the finals. That's always been the case. They don't want to give the time to the biggest tournament we have in the United States. Any other country, it's everywhere -- front page of the main paper, front page of the sports section. We haven't had that here.

Lindsay Davenport

You always see people coming back to the sport, and I've always thought, 'Gosh, when you're done playing, wouldn't you just want to stay at home?

Linda Ellerbee

When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.

Lil' Romeo

Dancing with The Stars' is like learning a new sport with lots of bumps and bruises.

Lilith Saintcrow

I don't even have moderately big breasticles. They just look like - well, nevermind what they look like. At least they stay strapped down when I worm into a sports bra.

Lil Wayne

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.