Athlete Quotes

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.

Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.

All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

Winning tastes good.

To win you have to risk loss.

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we'll be on top after all is said and done.

The business always gets in the way of basketball.

The 76ers currently play very good basketball, and we don't. However, we are still only one win behind them. If we continue to improve, we should be on the top of our division at the end of the regular season.

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.

If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.