Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Clancy

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

Todd Barry

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

Tina Maze

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that.

Tim Lincecum

Since baseball is my favorite sport, it's easy to go out and do what I do.

Tim McCarver

The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.

Tim McCarver

The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.

Tim McCarver

Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.

Tim McCarver

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

Tim McCarver

Well, David Eckstein, like most of us, has 20 digits. Ten fingers. Ten toes.

Tim McCarver

The reason we call that pitch up and in is because the arms are attached to the shoulder.

Tim Daly

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

Tim Ferriss

I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.

Tim Ferriss

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

Sam Heughan

I've always been into endurance sport, which I think is more about your mind pushing your body, which is definitely why that Bear Grylls book sung to me.

Sam Elliott

Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.

Sam Huff

In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.

Ryoko Tani

I don't agree with the idea that you have to live in a bubble and sacrifice all your time to something if you want to succeed. I need to be interested in things outside my sport, and I need to meet new people. For me, judo is an expression of the harmony I achieve in my life.

Ryne Sandberg

I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college

Ryne Sandberg

It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.

Ryne Sandberg

A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.

Ryne Sandberg

The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.

Ryne Sandberg

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

Ryne Sandberg

I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform.

Russell Wilson

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

Ronald Graham

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

Roman Abramovich

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)

Roger Federer

The week before the (US Open) I gave a few interviews for CNN, USA Network, New York Times, USA Today and Sports Illustrated which had been arranged beforehand. The reason for giving these interviews is not only because working with the media is just part of the job, it is much more my desire to contribute to the promotion of tennis in the U.S.

Roger Federer

I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.

Roger Federer

You live during the match, and you have strong emotions, but you don't want to get too overexcited. My body's totally flat now. I cannot move anymore. I'm totally exhausted, just because of the tension out there.

Roger Federer

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.

Roger Federer

I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.

Roger Federer

Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.

Sally Pearson

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.