Sports Quotes - Page 212

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, "God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them." And my question is, "Then why don't you?".

Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.

For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.

Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses.

There are some times when sports rises to the level of news and when sports broadcasters acquit themselves as well as the best news broadcasters do, they aren't there to dramatize. They're there as journalists.

I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.

I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.