famous sayings quotes quotations

When I step onto the court, I don’t have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It’s like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.
Michael Jordan
American basketball player.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you’ll win….Channel your energy. Focus.
Carl Lewis
American athlete and winner 9 Olympic gold medals.

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That’s why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.
Tiger Woods
American golfer, one of most successful of all time.

Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I’m very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.
Bill Shankly
English soccer manager.

Whoever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost.
Martina Navratilova
American tennis player.

Football is like life — it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi
American football coach.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billy Jean King
American tennis player.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
Earl Warren
Chief Justice of the United States.

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.
Oscar Wilde
Irish writer.

I’ll let the racket do the talking.
John McEnroe
American tennis player.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
Roy Keane
Irish soccer player and English football club manager.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
Katarina Witt
German figure skater.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali
American boxer.

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
Pele
Brazilian soccer player, considered possibly world’s greatest.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
Winston Churchill