Sports Quotes - Page 234

I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And normally, because obviously I could hurt somebody, and if I look at it that way, I have to back off.

I love going out every day and training and being part of the team, and having friendships built up over a number of years. It's those aspects of sport that I feel are really important.

Kids don't know the language of figure skating. If you ask them to do a compulsory figure, they don't know how to, and that's so important for the edge quality. I think that's why the older skaters are still as popular as they are - because they have that quality that people are missing in this generation.

I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.

I feel like the sport is coming to me.

A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.

The first ninety minutes are the most important.

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.

I might say something in Spanish; it all depends on how I'm feeling, what the situation is.

Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.

I was lucky. My grandmother stepped up for me and said she would take responsibility for me and a compassionate juvenile judge took a chance and gave me one. They were getting ready to send me away to do real time, but they sent me instead to a juvenile alternative day school. And I guess that was the beginning of my turnaround.

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 believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team.

It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

Running is a simple sport. You don't need all the zoopy zoopy.

Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis.