American Athlete Quotations | Page 6

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.

But I got a guy on third, I was in a jam the other day in a game, all those situations, when you need a strikeout there, in big spots. But we are very aware of that fact, that these guys put the ball in play.

All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that.

Those of us who participate realize the incredible honor bestowed on us, but to really understand the true scope and depth of the movement requires more investigation and concentration.

My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father.

How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.

You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.

I think George Foreman must have gained about 350 lbs and is slow as ever.

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.

Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies.

Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.

When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.

It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into the stands.

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

One of the best ones out there was a guy named Howard Cosell. He was the best.

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.

My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks. This is a situation that I'm in and I'll handle it and I'll make it work.

He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it.

I don't know how I do it, I really don't.

There's lots of charity stuff that I can do. There are actually a million things to do here, but it would be very hard for me to stop going overseas, because I've been doing that for longer than I've been playing in the WNBA.

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

The whole image thing gets in the way. Then there are the guys that it excites them and it's what draws them to me. But I don't know whether they would care for me if I didn't have this image.

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.

Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the changes were because of injuries. But that's where I give a lot of credit to the group in terms of being able to maintain things.

I just moved to Florida to seek out opportunities.

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.

Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.

The night before I compete, I like to have steak. Meat is especially important for female athletes because it provides them with the nutrients they need to perform at their best.

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.

It's been a tremendous ride. My 15 years, my 15 minutes of fame, is up.

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.

It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing - Bill is the same way - you don't need much to live.

The Olympic movement is divided into two very distinct eras.

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit.

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.

When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

All these older kids here, and I'm the only one from a town that's so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you'd run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there.

I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.

Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.

I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that.

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real.

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.

When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.

The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite.

The only reason I played golf was so that I could afford to go hunting and fishing.

We're in Manila. Come on, gorilla; this is a thriller.

Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it?

When you think about these single distances championships and these World Cup races, people can make a career out of skating one or two distances.

When we were in Pearl, in order to get out of the sun, we always had awnings over the back end of the ship, the stern of the ship.

When I was over there they tried to poison me and I wasn't feeling good anyway but I really felt I beat him but didn't get the decision.

We remain very confident in the safety of U.S. beef.

When we came back into Pearl it was pitch dark, and we could see the fires from the Arizona and the other ships still burning in the harbor.

Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.

Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.

To pick up a chip, attach it to the antenna and finish off the assembly requires mechanical movement of components in the assembly machinary.

To our good fortune, our country is protected by an exceptional corps of men and women in our intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

Wouldn't it be great if we just ended up tied? I think it would be beautiful.

We've turned down a lot of teams. You have to have your business stuff together in order to make it work. You have to have a team that can play.

We want them to know what it's like to be a leader, what it's like to be a team player because those things carry on in everyday life.

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

We used to look at Felipe as our guiding man that we listened to.

When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running.

The planes alone would have taken care of us, so I was grateful that we never found them. We were out there searching for 36 hours.

We're completely overjoyed by the news. In fact, there's a good possibility that we'll have a Christmas baby.

Like anything else, you have to pay your dues and create a positive environment for people to want to come out and be a part of it.

Leonardo da Vinci, for example, was an expert on differentials and made thousands of drawings of gears in his lifetime, largely for military purposes.

Legend has it that the original South Pointing Chariot was built in China three to four thousand years ago for the Yellow Emperor, Huang Di.

Many things have been said about Coach, and he is not understood by those who quote him. The players understand. This is one beautiful man.

Secondly, you got to have the right frame of mind. There are a lot of people with the right tools but just don't have the drive.

So I've realized that this outfit is part of Richard Petty now. And the real Richard Petty is still hidden behind these glasses.

So let's not get carried away by hubris: Australians are no better than anyone else when it comes to occupation of the moral high ground.

So I'm looking forward to tomorrow. I've put myself in position, and that's all I can ask. I hope I can go out there and enjoy it.

She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics.

Oh yes, it works very precisely, in accordance with the lunar month. The earth is divided into 24 segments, each one representing one hour in time.

Oh, yeah, the guys played great today. I felt their energy. And when I made the telephone call and I didn't get the answering machine; I got them.

Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

Mine was an apparent forward movement whereas Burley's was a continuous serpentine movement.

My journey took a surprising turn in 1992. I left Boston and who would have ever thought I would wind up with the New York Yankees?

My game has matured, and mentally, I've just matured to another level. That is a major factor in it. Some people mature really late.

Nobody ever told me that I'm in charge of what kind of player I can become, but there's no limit to what I can do if I really choose to push myself.

One word is passion. They are passionate about their team. We win we're great, lose and we're the worst. But you can't overreact to the fans.