Quotes About Athletics

Vienna is a city where they love sports.

In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful.

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.

There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony.

Nobody talks about it. But everyone knows that if you signed at Michigan or UNLV, you were viewed one way. If you signed at Duke or Indiana, you were viewed another way.

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.

Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

I probably hit the ball as far today as I did 40 years ago. That just shouldn't be.

Jim Brown will give you that leg and then take it away from you. Jim Taylor will give it to you and then ram it through your chest.

You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.

Guys named Chad probably only swam when playing water polo.

A guy's definition of baseball: you don't have to buy the other team dinner to get game.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. —Earl Wilson

The three most important assets in a footballer, he always said, were 'skill, flair and character'.

Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Football is not a contact sport, it's a collision sport - dancing is a contact sport.

No-one will dispute the effectiveness of a straight left or a right hook to the jaw or body, but unfortunately it takes months of practice to develop a good punch.

You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.

If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.