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Anna Kournikova I have lost this battle but I will win the war.... Hank Aaron My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a s... Hank Aaron The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home run... Harry Vardon Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.... Arnold Palmer What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I fin... Ben Hogan Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what... Ben Hogan Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singin... Ben Hogan As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the ro... Ben Hogan Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots... Ben Hogan The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.... Ben Hogan I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never fr... Ben Hogan I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so... Ben Hogan Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to gr... Ben Hogan If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulder... Ben Hogan I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees... Billie Jean King Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking p... Billie Jean King Champions keep playing until they get it right.... Bob Lemon The two most important things in life are good friends and... Bob Wells The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists... Carl Lewis Life is about timing.... Casey Stengel Most ball games are lost, not won.... Casey Stengel The trick is growing up without growing old.... Casey Stengel There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plent... Charles Barkley If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketbal... Charles Barkley You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there... Charles Barkley My family got all over me because they said Bush is only f... Charles Barkley These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't mak... Charlie Lau There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortu... Chris Evert Lloyd If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that'... Debi Thomas I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I ... Doug Collins Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the... Earl Wilson Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.... Ernest Jones The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his... Ernie Banks The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.... Frank Gifford Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners... Frank Gifford Gray skies are just clouds passing over.... Gary McCord He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.... Gary McCord He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ba... Gary McCord He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me lik... George Brett If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissi... Gordie Howe All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and pr... Greg LeMond Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the... Greg LeMond You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take ... Greg Norman What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good en... Jack Nicklaus There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win ... Jack Nicklaus He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've eve... Jack Nicklaus He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body hol... Jesse Owens A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.... Jim Bouton You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball an... Jim Bouton Baseball players are smarter than football players. How of... Joe Adcock Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying ... Joe Garagiola One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you t... Joe Garagiola Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing... Joe Garagiola I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."... Joe Garagiola Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his cur... John McEnroe I'll let the racket do the talking.... Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is t... Kareem Abdul-Jabbar You can't win unless you learn how to lose.... Katarina Witt When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I... Lee Trevino You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-w... Michael Jordan I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost a... Michael Jordan I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot..... Michael Jordan I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.... Michael Jordan As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'c... Michael Jordan If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I'v... Michael Jordan Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.... Mike Singletary Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The oppo... Mike Tyson I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I... Muhammad Ali Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if... Muhammad Ali I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.... Muhammad Ali It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the s... Muhammad Ali I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and... Muhammad Ali The man who has no imagination has no wings.... Nick Faldo He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick thro... Nick Price Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obvious... Nick Price He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he... Paul Coffey Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then wor... Paul Hornung Never get married in the morning - you never know who you ... Pete Rose It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it s... Reggie Jackson Fans don't boo nobodies.... Reggie Jackson The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.... Rogers Hornsby People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball... Rogers Hornsby I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someo... Sam Snead If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they d... Satchel Paige How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?... Satchel Paige Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.... Shaquille O'Neal I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, mon... Shaquille O'Neal If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Wo... Steve Garvey The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ball... Ted Williams Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can suc... Tiger Woods I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to wi... Tiger Woods My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. T... Tiger Woods Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for... Tiger Woods I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for... Tommy Bolt If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw... Tug McGraw I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf.... Warren Spahn Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.... Wayne Gretzky You miss 100% of the shots you never take.... Wayne Gretzky A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hock... Wilt Chamberlain Nobody roots for Goliath.... Yogi Berra You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.... Yogi Berra Half the lies they tell about me aren't true....

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