Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Sampras

When I tied the record five years in a row, even over in Europe, it wasn't really talked about. It is disap-pointing because it is one of the toughest things to do in sports.

Pete Sampras

There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not easy.

Pete Sampras

Anybody who has played sports and says they have never choked is lying to you.

Pete Sampras

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Pete Rose

I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.

Pete Rose

I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.

Pete Rose

Never bet on baseball.

Pete Rose

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

Pete Rose

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

Pete Rose

I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

Pete Rose

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

Pete Rose

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

Pete Rose

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Pete Rose

Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

Pete Rose

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

Phyllis Diller

Tennis is like marrying for money. Love has nothing to do with it.

Rachel Griffiths

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

Rabindranath Tagore

It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances, it dances. It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail, It soars to the sky with delight, it quests, Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances.

Macklemore

I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

Madame de Stael

Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.

Lynn Davies

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

Lynn Davies

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

Lynn Davies

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

Lynn Davies

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

Lynn Swann

I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting.

Lynn Swann

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

Lynn Swann

Professional sports is a business.

Haruki Murakami

I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

Haruki Murakami

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Harlan Coben

I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.

Grantland Rice

You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.

Graydon Carter

I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

Gordon Taylor

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.