Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorrie Fair

We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.

Lleyton Hewitt

He'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game, but also the way that he conducted himself on and off the court.

Michael Jordan

When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.

Michael Jordan

It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart

Michael Jordan

It's not how hard you pushed along the way. It's having something in you to finish.

Michael Jordan

Life is a sport...drink it up.

Meyer Lansky

All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

Mia Hamm

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

Mia Hamm

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

Mia Hamm

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

Mia Hamm

Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned, whether I knew I was learning them or not, through sports.

Mia Hamm

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

Mia Hamm

Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity.

Mia Hamm

Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other.

Mia Hamm

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

Mia Hamm

There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.

Michael Wilbon

There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.

Michael Wilbon

My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there is going to be such an award a player on the losing team who lets in the losing goal shouldn't get it.

Michael Wilbon

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

Michael Wilbon

Steinberg occupies a position that is very dear to those of us who've held it over the years: sports columnist at The Post. If all he wants to do is be popular--and I think Dan is better than that--then the readers of The Washington Post sports section won't be very well served. Telling readers how great they are as sports fans was never one of my priorities. The only thing worse than people who can't stand to hear an unpopular or unflattering opinion is those that are too afraid to state one.

Michael Wilbon

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

Michael Wilbon

Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

Michael Wilbon

God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.

Michel de Montaigne

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.

Michel de Montaigne

Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Michel de Montaigne

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me?

Michel de Montaigne

I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

Michael Schumacher

Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.

Michael Schumacher

Psychologically speaking, it's very important to be in good shape. I work in a sport that requires you to react quickly and be in excellent shape. Besides, things don't get easier as you get older.

Michael Schumacher

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

Michael Schumacher

I always thought records were there to be broken.

Michael Rapaport

Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.