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Sports Quotes


"Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men's tour on television has, over the last few years, had what might be termed Federer Moments. These are times, watching the young Swiss at play, when the jaw drops and eyes protrude and sounds are made that bring spouses in from other rooms to see if you're OK."


"I think it'll be an emotional day. It'll be exciting for me, mostly it'll be exciting for them. I'm not going to get to come here a lot, so, it'll be a special day, hopefully."


"England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield."



"The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast."


"Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody."


"We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them."


"Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story."


"I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing."



"It was a long, hard, tough day. We managed to just sneak through, it was an unbelievable Test match."


"Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again."


"I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting."


"If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54."


"There is a syndrome in sports called "paralysis by analysis.""


"The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity."


"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman."


"In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best."


"Wrestling is ballet with violence."


"Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess."


"I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable."


"Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick."


"Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart."


"The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures."


"I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon."


"You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn."


"I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment."



"You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement."
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