Athlete Quotes

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.

I am the best in baseball.

Hitting is better than sex.

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me.

Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate.

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

I love going out and doing new things.

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.

Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.

I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.