I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself. (Quote by - Jim Abbott)

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time. (Quote by - Greg Lemond)

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming. (Quote by - Charles Barkley)

That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much. (Quote by - Joaquin Andujar)

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. (Quote by - Mario Andretti)

I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. (Quote by - John Kruk)

Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of. (Quote by - David Coleman)

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. (Quote by - A. Bartlett Giamatti)

There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, 'You never know.' (Quote by - Joaquin Andujar)

I lost it in the sun! (after fumbling a grounder.) (Quote by - Billy Loes)

As I remember it, the bases were loaded. (asked his reaction to hitting a grand slam) (Quote by - Garry Maddox)

Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean. (on sportswriters) (Quote by - Pedro Guerrero)

Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings. (Quote by - Harold Brodkey)

He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it. (Quote by - Gary Mccord)

To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition. (Quote by - Marguerite Beecher)

People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. (Quote by - Pete Incaviglia)

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. (Quote by - Muhammad Ali)

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. (Quote by - Jason Kidd)

I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it. (Quote by - Ray Malavasi)

I told [GM] Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big name pitcher. He said, 'Dave Wehrmeister's got 11 letters. Is that a big enough name for you ?' (White Sox owner) (Quote by - Eddie Eichorn)

The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical (Quote by - Murray Walker)

I can tell you it's a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right through. (Quote by - Sky)

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. (Quote by - Bern Williams)