“When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!” ShouldSaidSportsLosesWeightFatsManagersCampsBootsBoot Camp Author:Li Na
“I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.” WantHas BeensSaidWinningSportsGoalCareersBreakRecordsFortunateBowlsSuper BowlMiamiDolphins Author:Dan Marino
“When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.” HumansSaidSportsRecordsNewsCelebrateJournalismAccomplishmentReportsSectionsGood News Book:And so it goes Source: And so it goes
“In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'” WantFirstsSaidAsksSportsRaceCarHorseI Want YouMulesSports CarsMustangRace Horses Author:Carroll Shelby
“The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.” WayFeelsFirstsSaidStarsSportsSawsFirst TimeWoodsTigersSuperstar Author:Gary Player
“People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and boxing,... And people tell me they don't believe it. Am I not the most credible person to give you the answer to that?” PeopleThinkingGivingBelievePersonsSaidGuySportsAnswersFootballDon't BelieveBoxingShyMmaBrutalCredible Author:Herschel Walker
“My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.” KnowsWorldWaySaidMomentsFatherFunSportsSupportMaking MoneyChampionship Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“We all admire the courageous person and quite often consider the individual who lacks courage, a coward. However, that is not how Earl Nightingale saw it. He said the opposite of courage was not cowardness, it was conformity. The next time you are encouraged to fall into line, to be a sport and everything in you says no - be courageous and go your own way. There is no compensation in conformity.” WayPersonsSaidFallNextIndividualSportsLinesSawsOppositesAdmireCourageousCowardConformityNext TimeCompensationBe CourageousNightingales Author:Bob Proctor
“Many years before when I had serious back pain from a sports injury, the surgeons said they would explore my spine and "figure it out." Out of frustration I had impulsively opted for the procedure. They ended up fusing the vertebrae. It left me debilitated. In hindsight, I blamed myself more than the surgeons. I had pressed them for a solution when in fact none was apparent because the cause of the pain was obscure.” YearsSaidFactsPainLeftCausesSportsFiguresSeriousSolutionsTherapyInjuryFrustrationObscureProceduresSurgeonsSpineHindsightBack Pain Author:Jerome Groopman
“These guys have been criticized the last few years for not getting to where we're going, but I've always said that the most important thing in sports is to keep trying. Let this be an example of what it means to say it's never over.” TryingYearsMeanHas BeensSaidImportantLastsGuyWinningSportsExampleLosingImportant ThingsNbaKeep Trying Author:Jerry Sloan
“I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'” PeopleThinkingFeelsFirstsMadeSaidEnoughSportsPrivilegedYogiDeja VuCommissioners Author:Bobby Hull
“I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.” SaidProblemSchoolLostSportsProcessTeacherNervousEnthusiasmUpsetGradesLazyFlunking Author:Bruce Jenner
“It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.” PeopleIfsThinkingSaidRememberCertainGamesSports Author:Carlton Fisk
“Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.” IfsSaidHelpingCareSportsRaceMiddleSummerWho You AreDon't CareI Don't CareBudgetsThey SaidPayroll Author:Dusty Baker
“As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.” SaidSports Author:Mario Lemieux
“"She (Minnie Ruth Solomon) was unusual because even though I knew her family was as poor as ours, nothing she said or did seemed touched by that. Or by prejudice. Or by anything the world said or did. It was as if she had something inside her that somehow made all that not count. I fell in love with her some the first time we ever talked, and a little bit more every time after that until I thought I couldn't love her more than I did. And when I felt that way, I asked her to marry me . . . and she said she would."” IfsWorldWayFirstsLittlesMadeSaidFeltBitsSportsPoorLittle BitFirst TimePrejudiceAthleteTouchedUnusualMarry MeRuthSolomonMinnie Author:Jesse Owens
“If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.” IfsLifeShouldSaidSportsHappenedFailureShould HaveAdversityGood ThingsComplainingBad ThingsWhy Me Author:Arthur Ashe
“It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.” PersonsSaidDreamKidsGamesWinningSportsLeaderTeamSpecialFootballHonorMountainProfessionFootball TeamMvp Author:Aaron Rodgers
“If a manager of mine ever said someone was indispensable, I'd fire him.” IfsSaidSportsFireMinesManagersIndispensable Author:Charlie Finley
“I'm a very bad impersonator so I can't even remember if I've ever done a sports person. I mean, I think I was Bruce Jenner once but I don't think I said anything in the sketch. I was just sitting there in a like a bronze tracksuit. No dialogue. They don't trust me with dialogue.” IfsThinkingMeanPersonsSaidI CanDoneRememberSportsSittingTrackDialogueSuitsTrust MeDon't TrustBronzeImpersonators Author:Will Forte
“My father was a racing driver, his name is Don Halliday. I grew up with it all around me. I have always been into fast, dangerous sports, even as a child. As soon as I got in a car I knew it was for me and that I would enjoy racing and competing. My mother was also involved in Solo One. She always said I was like my father and would want to compete one day.” WantChildrenSaidMotherFatherNamesSportsEnjoyDangerousCarGrewInvolvedOne DayGrew UpDriversRacingSoloCompetingRacing DriverDangerous Sports Author:Liz Halliday
“Not interested. I didn't try very hard. I went to boarding school on a sports' scholarship after I bowled a cricket ball into my old headmaster's leg. He said, 'Christ, that was accurate,' and got it for me. But I walked out at 16.” TryingSaidHardSchoolSportsChristBallsLegsAccurateNot InterestedCricketScholarshipHeadmasters Author:Tony Blackburn
“When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.” WayWantWritingSaidStoriesWantedFilmGamesSportsClearSawsViolenceFootballDramaOne DaySolutionsCamerasScriptsFinishedViolentHeySiblingRivalrySibling RivalrySports MovieFunny GameViolent Films Author:Carlos Cuaron