Sports Quotes

The only thing I really like doing during the week is getting ready to play the game.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he’s in a shampoo commercial.

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.

Messi is the Mozart of football.

Look, there’s no rule in soccer against biting your opponent. There’s not even a rule against eating your opponent. The only rule in soccer is that you can’t use your hands.

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Every year, I think of Worlds as the big meet, but now, it’s the Olympics. I’m blessed to even have the opportunity to think about it and work for it.

[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me.