FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: globalsportscoaching.com

Tennis Quotes:

"We get criticized for showing no personality, and then we get penalized when we do"

Lindsey Davenport world number 1

 

"Sampras, Sampras, Sampras, Sampras and Sampras"

Andre Agassi's reply when asked who the best five players of all time are.

 

"I like my job and think it Is a wonderful thing being a tennis player."

Venus Williams 2001

 

"This is the toughest sport of them all. Other sports don't play every night, when you are tired or hurt you don't get a substitute."

Pancho Gonzalez

 

On the coin toss Martina said "Do you want me to break your serve first or hold?" The umpire looked shocked. But we just both cracked up.

Lindsay Davenport

 

"Talent is great, but hard work is even better."

Richard Krajicek

 

"People criticise me for being arrogant (but maybe it's) because I'm a little smarter than the other."

Venus Williams

 

"I would never feel like I could have a relationship with a person I'm in competition against, that would allow them to understand me completely. You're always guarded."

Andre Agassi on Pete Sampras

 

"Before I was the hunter. Now I'm the hunted."

World No. 1 Martina Hingis

 

"This game is 50 percent mental, 45 percent physical, and 5 percent tennis."

Juan Carlos Ferrero 2003 French Open Champion

 

"To me, there is a cycle in sports: The more you enjoy it, the more you practise; the more you practise, the more you improve; therefore, you enjoy it more."

Pancho Gonzalez

 

"This is so great, to touch the trophy. If I never win another match I don't care. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to always be a Wimbledon Champion."

Goran Ivanisevic

 

"Tennis will never end for me because I love it so much. When my professional career is over, I will continue to play all my life."

Monica Seles

 

"I've been working hard for years. I didn't win this match today. I won it in practice."

Alex Corretja 2001

 

"I realised that racquet throwing didn't help my game because I was always getting negative. I used to negative talk, now I don't talk. I used to throw my racquet like you probably can't imagine. It was like helicopters flying all over. I was getting kicked out of practice at age 16 non stop. Now I have learned to relax on court."

Roger Federer 2001

 

"She's as mean as a snake. She reminds me of me."

Martina Hingis on Maria Sharapova

 

"He deserved his victory. He was the better player tonight. Never take anything away from someone who beat me, because I was playing my best."

Roger Federer, after loosing to Rafael Nadal in the French Open 2005

 

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FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: the-surfs-up.com

"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."---- Satchel Paige Quoted from Baseball's Greatest Quotations by Paul Dickson. "We all have to play the ball as it lies." Bobby Jones responding to a question about his crippling disease later in life. The Bobby Jones Website "I'm like a duck: calm above water, but paddling like hell underneath." ---- Fred Shero NHL coach, general manager Great Quotes from Great Sports Heroes compiled by Peggy Anderson Career Press (1997) "Today as I look back on that opening game of my first world series, I must tell you that it was Mr. Rickey's drama and that I was only a principal actor. As I write this twenty years later, I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made."---- Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson's autobiography, I Never Had It Made. "A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning." ---- Billie Jean King Tennis Pro Great Quotes from Great Sports Heroes compiled by Peggy Anderson Career Press (1997) "That man was so fast he could turn out the light and jump in bed before the room got dark."---- Satchel Paige -On Cool Papa Bell reported by Bob Broeg in his Sporting News Column, May 26 1973. "Jim Thorpe was probably the greatest natural athlete the world has seen in modern times." The New York Times Book of Sports Legends(1991) edited by Joseph Vecchione. "The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs."---- Tommy Lasorda Major League manager Great Quotes from Great Sports Heroes compiled by Peggy Anderson Career Press (1997) "One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing."---- Grantland Rice on Bobby Jones' swing. Bobby Jones Website "All this comin' and goin'. Rookies flyin' up the road and old-timers flyin' down, and nobody in between but me an' old John Mize, standin' pat, watchin' 'em go by. "And I ain't even sure about ol' John. Maybe he's flyin' on, too. If he is, I can always watch 'em go by myself. Time ain't gonna mess with me!"---- Satchel Paige Collier's, June 13, 1953. "I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it." ---- Larry Bird Basketball Great Great Quotes from Great Sports Heroes compiled by Peggy Anderson Career Press (1997) "A team in an ordinary frame of mind will do ordinary things. In the proper emotional stage, a team will do extraordinary things. To reach this stage, a team must have a motive that has an extraordinary appeal to them." ---- Knute Rockne 1888-1931 Champions of American Sport edited by Marc Pachter(1981) "Drive for show. But putt for dough." ---- Bobby Locke PGA Golfer Great Quotes from Great Sports Heroes compiled by Peggy Anderson Career Press (1997) "Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player who could have done what he did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split second to make up his mind if it's in or out or up or down or coming at his head, a split second to swing. To do what he did has got to be the most tremendous thing I've ever seen in sports."---- Reese, Harold "Pee Wee" On Jackie Robinson in an 1970 interview quoted by Roger Kahn in The Boys of Summer. "It got so I could nip frosting off a cake with my fastball."---- Satchel Paige Quoted from Maybe I'll Pitch Forever by Satchel Paige.

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