Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alonzo Mourning

I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.

Alonzo Mourning

There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.

Alonzo Mourning

You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team.

Anita Desai

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

Anita Defrantz

For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.

Andrew Shue

Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.

Andrew Shue

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields. they laughed all the time.

Andrew Sullivan

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

Andre Ward

It's one thing to have an eye for the sport, and it's another to have a feel for the sport. He has both.

Andre Ward

You're only as good as your last fight. It's just the way things are. It's the way that the sport is built.

Andre Ward

I want my legacy to be that I was a man of character, I was a God fearing man and somebody who bettered the sport in terms of the way I represented the sport. But also that fact that I was a fierce competitor and fought the best in the world and was able to come out on top, so if those things could be said about me, then I look at it as a job well done.

Andre Maurois

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Amelie Mauresmo

We all had, at some point, matches we should have won and we didn't and that's the game. That's just the way the sport is. Otherwise, if everything was written before, we don't need to play.

Amelie Mauresmo

I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.

Amelie Mauresmo

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

Amelie Mauresmo

This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.

Amelie Mauresmo

I have been amongst the best players in the world for 8 years. None at that level played as many ties as I did.

Amelie Mauresmo

It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.

Andy Lally

On the street luge side, you need to have a solid core and balance. A healthy body is a must in that sport if you want to compete for wins, and my diet has certainly enabled me to make the most of myself.

Andy Murray

I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

Andy Murray

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

Andy Murray

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

Andy Murray

Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.

Andy Murray

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

Ambrose Bierce

A modern school where football is taught.

Anthony Hecht

If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, Felt in the tingling bruises of collision, And known to captains as esprit de corps.

Anthony Hopkins

My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.

Alice Cooper

Golf is the crack of sports. If you hit five good shots, you know you can hit six good shots. The next time you hit six good shots, you know you can hit seven.

Alice Cooper

They say that golf isn't a contact sport. Not the way that we play it

Ana Ivanovic

Sport doesn't build character, it shows it.

Alyson Stoner

I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.

Amanda Beard

My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.

Amanda Beard

With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.