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Quotes of Sport Celebrities
On Mothers
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994) Olympic track-and-field champion
"Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead."
Roger Bannister (After becoming the first person to break the four minute mile, 1952)
"The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
Joe Theisman NFL football quarterback and sports analyst
"I love boxing. Where else do two grown men prance around in satin underwear, fighting over a belt?... The one who wins gets a purse. They do it in gloves. It's the accessory connection I love."
John McGovern
"Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand."
Leo Durocher (1906-1991) Baseball player, manager
Statistics are like bikinis: they show a lot but not everything.
Lou Piniella
"The gym teacher's name was Mr. Caruso. Mr. Caruso did not speak English. He spoke 'Gym.' One day I was playing basketball and Mr. Caruso told me I would have to get an athletic supporter. He didn't express himself exactly that way, though. He said, 'Hey, you, one day you're gonna go up for a rebound and the family jewels aren't gonna go with ya.' I had no idea what he was talking about. Next day I showed up for practice without my watch and my mezuzah. He said, 'Did ya take care of the family jewels?'
I said, 'I left 'em in my locker.'
Took us a half hour to revive Mr. Caruso."
Tommy Lasorda
"Magic is who I am on the basketball court....Earvin is who I am."
Earvin "Magic" Johnson (1959-)US basketball player "My Life," 1992.
"They called it golf because all the other four letter words were taken."
Walter Hagen.
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
Rogers Hornsby
"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."
Ted Williams
"When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove."
Vance Law
"Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that."
Nomar Garciaparra
"If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming."
Charles Barkley (1963-) US basketball player
"I'll moider da bum. "
Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento (when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare)
"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't."
Bruce Jenner
"This is boring! Now I know what people went through when...my Bronco was going up the freeway."
O. J. Simpson, on the televised journey of the Ryder truck taking presidential election ballots to Tallahassee.
"I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won."
Muhammad Ali.
"Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind."
Jackie Joyner-Kersee, US Athlete, Olympian
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
Vince Lombardi
"Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades."
Frank Robinson US baseball player, manager
"I ain't ever had a job. I just always played baseball."
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
"The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back."
Steve Garvey
"When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player, and join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both."
Anthony Standen
"Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets."
Yogi Berra
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
Yogi Berra
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
Vince Lombardi
"Golf is a game whose sole aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill designed for that purpose."
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman, writer (Nobel laureate in literature, 1953)
"Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win."
Nadia Comaneci
"Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life & Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it."
Joe Kapp
Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Knute Rockne (1888-1931)US football coach He built Notre Dame into a football powerhouse and created the "Four Horsemen" backfield.
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
Arthur Ashe, American tennis champion
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Yogi Berra
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