Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vince Lombardi

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Vijender Singh

I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

Vijender Singh

Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

Vijender Singh

I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

Sugar Ray Robinson

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street

Sugar Ray Leonard

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.

Steve Chabot

Politics is a contact sport.

Steve Cauthen

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Stephen Neal

MY TOUGHEST MATCH; is not on the mat. It's at the dinner table and it's at fast food restaurants. It's hearing about the party I can Never go to. It's realizing being a Great Wrestler isn't a sport, It's a LIFE.

Stephen Moyer

I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.

Spiro T. Agnew

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Sri Chinmoy

Life and sports cannot be separated; they are one.

Sri Chinmoy

Run and become. Become and run. Run to succeed in the outer world. Become to proceed in the inner world.

Ruud Gullit

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

Rubin Carter

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

Ross Perot

When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.

Ron Jaworski

I love to see Favre playing his best football, and if his mind his right, he'll probably have a fine season.

Ron Jaworski

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

Ron Jaworski

We had a very exhaustive, extensive search for the guy that is going lead our football team over the next few years. We spent about two months in an in-depth interview process, and Bret came out with flying colors. We are absolutely thrilled that he is our head coach.

Ron Jaworski

A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.