Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boris Becker

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

Boris Becker

Thats the hard part about sport: as men we havent started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

Boris Johnson

I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people's attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.

Bobby Rahal

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

Bobby Rahal

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

Bobby Rahal

Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years.

Bobby Rahal

We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation.

Bobby Robson

The first ninety minutes are the most important.

Bobby Labonte

The competition is a big part of it [racing] - the passion you have for the sport and the knowledge you have. You're not just going to wake up one day and say, " think I'll do something different." This is what I've done my whole life. My competitive nature and my passion for the sport, those are the things that keep you wanting to do better.

Bobby Knight

I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.

Bobby Knight

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

Bobby Knight

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

Bobby Knight

I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps more important, what their potential is - as a person as well as a player. You've got to show players that being part of a team will carry over to the experience of becoming part of society.

Bobby Knight

Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.

Bobby Knight

I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?

Bobby Knight

Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

Bobby Knight

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Bob Costas

Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses.

Bob Costas

There are some times when sports rises to the level of news and when sports broadcasters acquit themselves as well as the best news broadcasters do, they aren't there to dramatize. They're there as journalists.

Bob Costas

We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.

Bob Costas

The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.

Bob Cousy

I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For the first 12 years of my life we lived in a terrible ghetto on the East River.

Bob Cousy

But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities.

Bob Cousy

Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all in terms of timing and being at the right place at the right moment-even though, for the last 30 years, I was told I was born 20 years too soon, for obvious reasons.

Bob Cousy

Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

Billy Casper

Golfers are the greatest worriers in the world of sport.

Bonnie Blair

I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.

Bonnie Blair

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would accomplish what I have in the sport

Bonnie Blair

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

Bonnie Blair

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

Bode Miller

In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.

Bode Miller

When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

Bode Miller

My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.