Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leisel Jones

I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and maybe I will find something deep within to find the desire to swim fast

Leisel Jones

It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous

Leisel Jones

It took a lot of guts to change it and say 'I don't like the life that I'm living and I don't like the swimmer I am', so let's change it completely and say 'Look, I've got to learn to love myself'. And that's been a really hard thing to do because when you've done a performance that you're not proud of and the public and the media have criticized you.....people are really quick to make judgements so it was tough to say 'Well I don't care what you have to say. I'm going to do this for myself and if you don't like me after this, well then, it's too bad'.

Leisel Jones

I don't think I'm unbeatable, nobody is

Leisel Jones

I've achieved everything I ever wanted. I've done three Olympics, world championships, I've been around the world and made good friends. But I still have the inner drive to do more, to be not just good, but to be great.

Leigh Steinberg

Whatever fighting words you hear from the bargaining table, the reality is that with the new TV contract about to take effect and the incredibly lucrative ancillary revenue streams, both sides know we are on the verge of ushering in the most lucrative payday in the history of professional sports. The history of professional football is that nothing happens until the very last moment.

Leigh Steinberg

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

Leigh Steinberg

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

Leigh Steinberg

I ran track, and basically played every sport.

Leighton Meester

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.

Layne Beachley

You've always got to be aware of why you don't win; otherwise you'll keep losing. Every mistake is a learning experience and, hopefully, you won't make the same mistake again.

Layne Beachley

I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

Lawrence Taylor

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

Lawrence Taylor

LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more.

Lawrence Taylor

I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

Lawrence Taylor

As players, we always have a way to get back at you.

Lawrence Taylor

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

Lawrence Taylor

First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.

Lawrence Taylor

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

Lawrence Taylor

If I'm going to break them, I'm going to break them both.

Lawrence Taylor

You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system.

Lawrence Taylor

Cocaine is totally different than steroids.

Lawrence Taylor

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

Laura Wilkinson

I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

Laura Wilkinson

Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

Laurell K. Hamilton

How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture?

Landon Donovan

The first goal is always important.

Landon Donovan

I love winning and any team I'm on, I expect to win.

Langston Hughes

When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.

John Kessel

Trying simply provides an excuse for not doing.

John Kessel

Too many players are so afraid to do anything that they seldom venture to do anything.

John Kessel

Never underestimate your players; they can do it with enough game-like practice. Coaches must put more emphasis in practice and in life on making student-athletes aware of what they could or can do, rather than what they couldn't or presently can't do. The focus must be on solutions, not problems; what is wanted, not what is feared.

John Kessel

Teachers all over the nation are doing the job they are asked to do, but one they are not really prepared to do. To teach volleyball as a physical activity that is also a positive experience. If you care about volleyball, help these teachers have fun and learn more of this great game. Teach the teachers.