Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lil Wayne

Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle.

Leslie Nielsen

Any sport that comes from Scotland is good!

Peter Forsberg

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

Peter Forsberg

It's not only hockey, it's every sport. You know, it's a big event.

Peter Forsberg

It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in.

Peter Farrelly

We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.

Pele

Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world.

Pele

I want to do my best to make the people happy. I play with my heart for the sport.

Pele

If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.

Pele

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

Pele

Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.

Payne Stewart

I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.

Payne Stewart

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.

Payne Stewart

I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.

Payne Stewart

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

Payne Stewart

Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.

Payne Stewart

Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.

Phil Crosby

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

Phil Esposito

Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed.

Peter Sagal

The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports.

Peter Porter

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

Peter Jacobson

I'm a huge, huge sports fan. A massive sports fan.

Peter Jacobson

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.

Pete Lembo

I always approached the sport from a more cerebral, analytical point of view, a management perspective. I was taking all business classes there at Georgetown, I really enjoyed that. I always sort of looked at football from that perspective.

Pete Rozelle

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

Pete Rozelle

But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl.

Pete Sampras

After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.

Pete Sampras

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

Pete Sampras

When I tied the record five years in a row, even over in Europe, it wasn't really talked about. It is disap-pointing because it is one of the toughest things to do in sports.

Pete Sampras

There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not easy.

Pete Sampras

Anybody who has played sports and says they have never choked is lying to you.

Pete Sampras

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Pete Rose

I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.