Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.
You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.
It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
A few minutes ago, I had a hard time getting through the lobby because of all the people. After today, that won't be happening.
You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.
I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more different from life. For one thing sports, unlike life, are played according to rules. Indeed, the rules are the sport: life may behave bizarrely and still be life, but if the runner circles the bases clockwise it's no longer baseball.
I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.
I didn't even think about hiding anything - I honestly went into it [with the idea that] I'm going to show myself off because no one of my size has ever been in this magazine [Sports Illustrated] and I need other women to know that they are just as beautiful.
Not many people understand what a pump is. It must be experienced to be understood. It is the greatest feeling that I get. I search for this pump because it means that that my muscles will grow when I get it. I get a pump when the blood is running into my muscles. They become really tight with blood. Like the skin is going to explode any minute. It's like someone putting air in my muscles. It blows up. It feels fantastic.
You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
If I don't do what I need to do to win, I won't win, no matter who is on the other side of the net.
I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.
Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.
You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.
Individuals score points, but teams win games.
If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
