Quotes About Athletics

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.

McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back.

It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Rader.

Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.

Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

There's a hard shot to LeMaster, he throws Madlock into the dugout.

At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.

Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play.

Right now Andy Larkin is pitching just like young Andy Larkin.

Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.

As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental."

The more success I have with track and field the bigger my brand is. So I would say I'm more of a brand now, trying to build for the future.

Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He's already one of the greatest players to have played the game.

You know, it's hard to say what's going to happen in the future. But, if I stay healthy, I think I'll probably play until I'm about 40.

Most goals are scored between the posts.

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.

Sure, Messi and Ronaldo have scored more goals than me. But I won the treble!

Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.

I'm a strong believer that if you score goals, you win matches.