Sports Quotes - Page 176

In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed.

I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.

There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

Softball is an easy sport to fall in love because our game is fast paced and action packed.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

It's not too far; it just seems like it is.

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

I run, but boxing conditioning is different, so you have to get used to running in the ring. Boxing movements are very different. Swimming is one of the best because every single muscle is working. I swim a lot. I train very hard at things that mimic boxing. I have to do mostly sport-specific training, such as lots of sparring.

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.

I played sports, so I understood quickly I shouldn't be eating fast food because it was slowing me down, making me feel lousy and lazy, and my instincts were not working as they should.

I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

The bat is gone, but the smile remains.

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.