Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sachin Tendulkar

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

Sachin Tendulkar

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

Sachin Tendulkar

I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.

Sachin Tendulkar

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

Ryan Cabrera

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

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

Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club.

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

My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.

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.

Rulon Gardner

I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.

William Hazlitt

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

William Hazlitt

The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.

William Hazlitt

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.

William Davis

Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.

Wendell Pierce

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

Walter Payton

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

Wade Boggs

This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.

Wade Boggs

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

Wade Boggs

One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.

Wade Boggs

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Wade Boggs

My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

W. Somerset Maugham

For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay...

Yani Tseng

You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.

Willie Wilson

I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.

Willie Stargell

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.

Willie Stargell

I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.

Willie Stargell

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

Willie Stargell

The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.