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Sports Quotes


"My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled."


"I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United."


"I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing."


"I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club."


"It's quite easy to start Trials riding. You just need a bike and you're set."


"In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents."


"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll."


"We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games."


"It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts."


"I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English."


"I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really."


"Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it."


"I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports."


"I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova."


"I think that every single person should play sports."


"You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top."


"Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be."


"Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed."


"They have very good individual players, but they need the collective game. And they still do not have it although there are now only six months left to go."


"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."


"The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one."


"Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those."


"If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired."


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


"I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee."


"So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion."


"I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points."
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