Sports Quotes - Page 160

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.

I don't care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.

I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.

Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge.

Every GP Masters race will stand out because we will be available for fans, media and sponsors.

That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

Surfing is all about living in the moment. When you walk out on the Sydney Cricket Ground to play cricket you're intensely aware of the history of the sport; you're playing on this historic ground surrounded by pictures of the legends. With surfing, you just dive into the water and paddle out and catch waves.

Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. That is why it is so important that the FIFA World Cup will, for the first time ever, be hosted on the African continent in 2010. We feel privileged and humbled that South Africa has been given this singular honour of being the African host country.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair

Pilates is an awesome cross-training exercise for any sport because it focuses on functional movement.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me!

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay