Sports Quotes - Page 32

I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.

Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.

The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That was the first acting thing I did.

A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Had Rahul Dravid been born in any country other than India, he would have been much more famous than Sachin Tendulkar.

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.

Doubters don't win, winners don't doubt.

With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.

The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

A lot of rookies hit the wall after 50 or 60 games.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.