A lot of guys are starting to get away from trying to jerk these heavy weights and throw all these heavy weights around.
Jake Arrieta
A lot of guys came together quickly as a group, as more than just teammates, as friends. Your family get to know each other, and you become really
close, and that's a big part of the team aspect is caring about your teammates off the field, getting to know their kids, their families, their wives.
Jake Arrieta
ACE
is one of the acronyms I've used over the years. It stands for Acting cures everything.
You
weren't promised to come to the ballpark and feel great on your start day. Basically, how can you put something on
display to the opponent that gives the appearance of OK, this guy is locked in today,
whether you are or not?
Jake Arrieta
ACE stands for Acting cures everything.
You weren't promised to come to the ballpark and feel great on your start day.
Jake Arrieta
As a kid, you put yourself in those positions. Bases loaded, two outs, you're at the plate.
That's kind of the way I envision it as a kid playing whiffle ball or whatever the case was.
Jake Arrieta
As far as my mental approach, I really think it's just knowing that the past is really irrelevant.
Jake Arrieta
As you get a little older, you understand what you need to do to be good, regardless of who likes it or
doesn't like it. It's my career. And at the end of the day, it's going to be how I think I can do it best.
Jake Arrieta
At an early age, if you develop a delivery or a throwing motion that is direct to the
plate, then that's fine. If you have one that's slightly open, that's fine, too.
Jake Arrieta
At the end of the day, all we're trying to do is get the hitter off balance. Get him in a position where he's not strong in the strike zone.
Jake Arrieta
At this point, I'm just grinding through it, trying to establish strikes in the zone with my
pitches, using some information the opposition gives me, and kind of moving forward in that regard.
Jake Arrieta
Being in the same sentence as Bob Gibson, that's incredible.
Expressing admiration for being compared to the legendary pitcher Bob Gibson.
Jake Arrieta
Building strength is very important, but there are many ways to do that.
Jake Arrieta
Dry deliveries. That helps when I get the ball back in my hand - like I never really stopped throwing. The goal for me is to increase arm strength.
Jake Arrieta
Early in my career, I wasn't good in the strike zone early. I was good in the strike zone late, which is not a good thing.
Jake Arrieta
Everybody here has the ability to throw a fastball down and away or throw a breaking ball in the dirt for a swing and a miss. But are we
able to stay in that moment and understand what we're trying to accomplish and see it in our mind before we execute and then make the pitch?
Jake Arrieta
Everyone wants to have a career year, but if I stick to what I'm doing, I like my chances. I'll be fine.
Jake Arrieta
Guys want to be compensated fairly.
Jake Arrieta
Hamstring flexibility and hip mobility for me are the two most important factors on the field.
Jake Arrieta
How many people can do what I do, anyways? A handful of guys?
Jake Arrieta
I care about the integrity of the game.
Jake Arrieta
I consider myself a really good racquetball player. I'm sure that I would get waxed by
some actually good racquetball players, but I consider myself a pretty versatile athlete.
Jake Arrieta
I could be 30 pounds heavier if I played football. But I play baseball, and I do Pilates.
Jake Arrieta
I don't like to see any sucker punches. I do think, in the heat of battle, if you're
getting hit on the hip with 98, then you should be able to go out and see somebody.
Jake Arrieta
I don't think I've ever been as humbled as I have been in Pilates. It's incredible how much body
control and how much isolated strength you have to have to complete these movements successfully.
Jake Arrieta
I eat plants. I eat lean meat. I work out.
Jake Arrieta
I enjoyed my time in Baltimore. I really did. I learned so much.
Jake Arrieta
I expect to beat everybody I play. It's kind of that quiet confidence that I have inside that I try to present to the
opponent without getting too overboard. Because there are times when I seem composed, but inside I'm losing my mind.
Jake Arrieta
I feel, that I'm only going to get better.
Jake Arrieta
I had great teammates. Adam Jones took great care of me. Mike Gonzalez took good care of me.
Jake Arrieta
I had teammates like Chris Davis. Manny Machado was really young and such a good kid. Seeing his
development, it's ridiculous. He's going to get bigger. He's going to get stronger. He's going to get even better.
Jake Arrieta
I know the Cubs don't typically do six- or seven-year deals, but I think there are
obviously times when there should be exceptions. I think I've done pretty well here.
Jake Arrieta
I let previous instances creep up in my thought process sometimes. I think that's where things go awry,
and that's where the walks come in. I'm not giving up many hits, just putting them on base for free.
Jake Arrieta
I like my chances toe to toe with just about anybody.
Jake Arrieta
I like to get the body temperature up, the heart rate up. I'll do anywhere from 10 to 25 minutes either on a bike, a rower, a StairMaster, or a combination
of the three of those. And then I'll normally run through a 20- to 30-minute session either on the Pilates reformer, the Cadillac, or the Pilates chair.
Jake Arrieta
I personally don't think guys should get multiple chances when guys fail a steroid test.
Jake Arrieta
I repeat my delivery consistently. My balance is much improved. And the mental and physical
toughness Pilates requires to complete movements the correct way have directly helped me on the mound.
Jake Arrieta
I think flexibility in general is something that needs to be reinforced, and not only baseball players but all sports.
Jake Arrieta
I think the average MLB career now is just a few years. The quote that has always resonated
with me is We're going to be former players a lot longer than we were current players.
Jake Arrieta
I think the beard plays a slight factor to my presence on the mound. It's kind of part of the
persona now. Everyone in Chicago embraced it, so I got to keep it. I can't ditch it now.
Jake Arrieta
I trust how much my ball moves. I can throw it at you or this far off the plate and have it end up on the black. That's
where I kind of went to the next level. I knew what all my pitches were doing. Even in '14, I didn't have that ability.
Jake Arrieta
I try to start every day with some sort of vegetable and fruit juice before I eat any kind of solid food. Because
that really jump starts your body and digestive system with the high content of micronutrients that your body needs.
Jake Arrieta
I want to shoot an elk with a bow. Mind you, I've never hunted in my life. But I feel like if I'm
ever going to hunt, it's going to be with a bow. I just feel like a bow requires more skill.
Jake Arrieta
I was giving some of my teammates a hard time, saying I've got more pop than they do.
Jake Arrieta
I was in Baltimore in 2012 and 2013.
Jake Arrieta
I watch what I eat, and I train properly.
Jake Arrieta
I wouldn't change anything I went through for the world, because it got me here.
Jake Arrieta
I wouldn't want to disappoint my family, my friends, my fans.
Jake Arrieta
I'd like to stay in Chicago, but if they don't want me, somebody will.
Jake Arrieta
I'm extremely hairy. It pretty much connects from the top of my head to my toes with a nice upper body sweater/track jacket type of thing.
Jake Arrieta
I'm never trying to hurt or hit anybody.
Jake Arrieta
I'm not really into the statements kind of thing.
Jake Arrieta
I'm not saying I won't make a mistake throughout the game.
Jake Arrieta
I'm probably throwing down close to 10,000 calories. And then I don't eat for three or four days.
Jake Arrieta
I've always been in good shape. I just sucked early in my career from a statistical perspective.
Candidly acknowledging his early career challenges despite being physically fit.
Jake Arrieta
I've been through a lot in my career, and the failure that I've gone through makes me really appreciate the moments of success much more.
Jake Arrieta
I've got some good movement on my sinking fastball, and I rely on that.
Jake Arrieta
I've had some incredible experiences with this organization. I owe a lot to this team and this
organization and the ownership. I don't want to see that time come to an end, my time as a Cub.
Jake Arrieta
I've heard players, and I'm talking about some of the best players in the league, question whether I've
taken steroids or not. Some of the things I hear are pretty funny, and some people are idiots, frankly.
Jake Arrieta
I've made it clear I like Chicago.
Jake Arrieta
I've never had anything to hide.
Jake Arrieta
If I have to leave, I don't want to leave without another ring.
Jake Arrieta
If people call into question my work ethic, that's fine, because I know what I'm doing behind the scenes.
Jake Arrieta
If two guys want to go see each other, let them be in the middle, let them throw some punches, then break it up.
Jake Arrieta
Immersing myself in the Wrigleyville area was special to me and my family.
Jake Arrieta
It is good to kind of put your pride aside for the betterment of the ball club. We are all on board for that, even if you want to go another inning.
Jake Arrieta
It's about just staying in the moment.
Jake Arrieta
It's going to come down to executing, trying to keep guys off balance and disrupting timing.
That's something you can do regardless of how many times you face a lineup or face certain hitters.
Jake Arrieta
It's just a continuous process, trying to work through it, trying find that comfort zone
and go from there. That's kind of where I'm at. I feel pretty good about where I'm at.
Jake Arrieta
It's one thing to have a scouting report and not be able to execute it, and it's completely different if you're able to
kind of work your way through that report, attack guys certain ways, use different sequences, and be effective with them.
Jake Arrieta
It's something that is very comforting. Just the process of them moving throughout their stages of early
childhood. Learning to walk, learning to talk. Reaching out for you for the first hug, telling you they love you.
Jake Arrieta
Just having two kids now, regardless of what happens in the field, they're there to receive you with open arms every night after every game.
Jake Arrieta
Just know, especially when they were infants and toddlers, the thought these two children
depend on us for everything in their lives 24/7. That's a pretty incredible responsibility.
Jake Arrieta
Just so many special moments that make you feel incredibly fortunate and grateful to be able to have healthy, beautiful kids.
And I'm sure the emotions will continue to change over time, and as I get older, I'll probably want to yell and scream at them.
Jake Arrieta
Look at all of the pitchers getting six- and seven-year deals at 30, 31, and 32. You see what's going on and the money
that's out there. You'd be a fool not to try to benefit from that, or at least try to get what you feel you're worth.
Jake Arrieta
My flexibility is probably my No. 1 asset. Obviously we need to have a strong shoulder, strong scapula, strong lats, and a durable elbow to
have longevity as a pitcher, but being mobile in the hips and flexible in the hamstrings takes so much pressure and stress off of my arm.
Jake Arrieta
On the road, we're hitting in the cages during our normal batting practice for our position players.
Jake Arrieta
Once I get completely right mechanically and with command, maybe I only use two or three pitches to get through seven innings.
Jake Arrieta
People asking my teammates, Is Arrieta a guy who'd try to cheat the system?
Honestly, hearing that
kind of stuff come from some of the best players in baseball is honestly a compliment. I view it that way.
Jake Arrieta
People had lost faith in me in Baltimore, and rightfully so. I knew that was not the guy I was.
Jake Arrieta
People have confidence in you. It's easy to have confidence in somebody that's going out there every night and giving the team a chance to win.
Jake Arrieta
Pilates has been around a long time but maybe was taboo in this sport. I think it's
only a matter of time before you see a reformer in every big league clubhouse.
Jake Arrieta
Really being able to harness my mental approach has kind of taken me to the next level, and obviously maturing as a player and a
teammate and as a person. Those are things that are necessary to achieve success in this game. There's no other way around it.
Jake Arrieta
Regardless of how long it took or what I had to go through to get there, I had visualizations of throwing no-hitters or throwing shutouts.
Jake Arrieta
Sequencing is a really big factor in preparing for a team that you've faced several times. For me, at the end of the day, I feel like if I
execute, regardless if I were to use same sequencing as I have in the past against these guys, I still feel confident in my ability to have success.
Jake Arrieta
Sometimes, when I break my hands, I kind of go too far behind my body, and what
that will do, wherever my right arm's going to go, my left arm's going to go.
Jake Arrieta
Sports psychology or mental training has been viewed as a weakness, and I think that's a pretty silly way to look at it.
Jake Arrieta
That's one of my focuses, is to increase my flexibility and strength and have greater range of motion.
Jake Arrieta
That's one the main reasons we live in Austin. The weather is so nice for the majority of the offseason, and it's easy for us to get out and
ride bikes and get on some trails, to walk together as a family. Sometimes I'll go out for a trail run. We just like to do things outdoors.
Jake Arrieta
That's why I got into Pilates: because I can reduce the stress and impact in my joints while
still being able to increase strength and flexibility, and it's going to pay dividends.
Jake Arrieta
That's why it's so important to have that gap between your fastball and off-speed
pitches: then, when you effectively locate your fastball, it plays at a higher velocity.
Jake Arrieta
The back hair doesn't get all that long; it's just really thick. So if I don't keep it shaved once a week, it's a
problem, and it could take two hours. And my wife's got to do it, so it's her problem. I told her we just need to buy
a laser hair removal machine because it would take three or four years and probably 50 sessions to get rid of it.
Jake Arrieta
The contract stuff will work itself out. If we keep winning, those kinds of things all work themselves out in time.
Jake Arrieta
The initial desire to train at an elite level started when I was probably 12.
Jake Arrieta
The numbers are hard to control.
Jake Arrieta
The preparation is what allows the success to happen naturally.
Jake Arrieta
The timeline is kind of coming to an end as far as leading up to free agency.
Jake Arrieta
There are so many things on Twitter, so many mentions, it's hard to get through all of them.
Jake Arrieta
There are still things I can do better.
Jake Arrieta
There were so many things in Baltimore not many people know about. I had struggles with my pitching coach. A lot of guys did.
Jake Arrieta
There's food and supplements that you can take legally that will better your body and help you stay healthy. Shortcuts are
something that's always been around all sports, but as a union, we're trying to do the best we can to weed those guys out of the game.
Jake Arrieta
There's not many guys that can pitch at the top of the rotation floating around the league.
Jake Arrieta
There's plenty of situations where we'll come up with guys on base, less than two outs, and those are opportunities for us to help ourselves out.
Jake Arrieta
There's so many things running through your mind. If you can formulate a game plan that works for you and
allows you to block outside distractions and get to what matters, that's how the talent is able to come out.
Jake Arrieta
Time flies really quickly. It feels like only a few months ago that I was traded over here and started my career as a Cub in 2013.
Jake Arrieta
Typically, being under the strike zone with the sinker isn't a big issue. I need to be a little bit higher with the
strike zone earlier in the count. If you miss under with one here and there when you're ahead, it's really not an issue.
Jake Arrieta
Unfortunately, the business side of the game shows its head every once in a while. But I still think
there's opportunity and chances that we can have good conversations as far as an extension's concerned.
Jake Arrieta
We know St. Louis is a great club. They have been for a long time.
Jake Arrieta
We're tested eight, nine times a year - blood tested, urine tested, so I mean, if people think I'm doing something, tell them to increase the testing.
Jake Arrieta
What I did before in my career you can pretty much throw out the window. Out of sight, out of mind.
Jake Arrieta
What I don't like to see is a lot of chirping and guys just talking crap to each other. If you got something wrong with a guy, go see him.
Jake Arrieta
When I do train heavy, it's typically one to two days a week, but the training I do just about on a daily basis is Pilates-based.
Jake Arrieta
When it comes up with my age, I'm like, let's just end the conversation there. That's irrelevant to me. I'll pitch until I'm 40.
Jake Arrieta
With a runner at second base with nobody out, you're trying to punch somebody out. You
understand when there are guys in scoring position; hitters like to be aggressive early.
Jake Arrieta
You can struggle for a little while. It's going to happen. If a guy hits .200 for a while, it doesn't mean he's a .200 hitter.
Jake Arrieta
You feel everybody has your best interests in mind, but you come to find out that's not necessarily the case.
Jake Arrieta
You play your surroundings. You pitch accordingly. Not that I drastically try to change my game
plan based on the score or the team or stadium, but you have to take everything into consideration.
Jake Arrieta
You rarely see any blowout games.
Jake Arrieta
You really want to try to continue to pile up outs as often as you possibly can. Whether they get a hit or
not really doesn't affect the way you continue to approach that lineup, especially with a five-run lead.
Jake Arrieta
You want to be paid in respect to how your peers are paid.
Jake Arrieta
You want to be the team that is on the field when the last out is made on the winning side.
That's obviously the holy grail in the game that I play, and that's what every player strives for.
Jake Arrieta
90 percent of the game is half mental.
Often paraphrased: Baseball is 90 percent mental, the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
A good ball club.
When asked what makes a good baseball team manager.
Yogi Berra
A lot of guys go, Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.
I tell 'em, I don't know any.
They want me to make one
up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
Yogi Berra
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra
All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
Yogi Berra
Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
Yogi Berra
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Yogi Berra
Baseball is 90 percent mental, the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
Yogi Berra
Cut my pie into four pieces. I don't think I could eat eight.
Yogi Berra
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Yogi Berra
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
Yogi Berra
He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
Meaning ambidextrous.
Yogi Berra
How can you think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra
I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
Yogi Berra
I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
Yogi Berra
I didn't know much about golf growing up.
Yogi Berra
I didn't really say everything I said.
Pointing out that he didn't say everything that people think he said. A meta-Yogi-ism.
Yogi Berra
I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
Yogi Berra
I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.
Yogi Berra
I don't mean to be funny.
Yogi Berra
I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.
Yogi Berra
I guess I've got a smart wife.
Yogi Berra
I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.
Yogi Berra
I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day.
He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.
Yogi Berra
I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
Yogi Berra
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change
bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
Yogi Berra
I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
Yogi Berra
I never said half the things I said.
Yogi Berra
I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
Yogi Berra
I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
Yogi Berra
I thought they said steak dinner, but then I found it was a state dinner...
Regarding a fancy dinner he attended at the White House.
Yogi Berra
I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
Yogi Berra
I want to thank you for making this day necessary.
Spoken on Yogi Berra Day in St Louis in 1947.
Yogi Berra
I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
Yogi Berra
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
Yogi Berra
I'd say he's done more than that!
When asked if Don Mattingly had exceeded expectations.
Yogi Berra
I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
Yogi Berra
I'm glad I was in the Navy.
Yogi Berra
I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
Yogi Berra
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra
If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.
Yogi Berra
If I didn't wake up I'd still be sleeping.
Yogi Berra
If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
Yogi Berra
If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
Yogi Berra
If they don't want to come, you can't stop them.
Yogi Berra
If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
Yogi Berra
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
Yogi Berra
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
Yogi Berra
In baseball, you don't know nothing.
Yogi Berra
It ain't over till it's over.
His most famous, coined during the 1973 Mets pennant race.
Yogi Berra
It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
Yogi Berra
It gets late early out there.
Referring to left field shadows at Yankee Stadium.
Yogi Berra
It was hard to have a conversation with anyone; there were so many people talking.
Regarding a fancy dinner he attended at the White House.
Yogi Berra
It's fun; baseball's fun.
Yogi Berra
It's like déjà vu all over again.
In reference to the number of home runs hit by Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle.
Yogi Berra
It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
Yogi Berra
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi Berra
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
Yogi Berra
Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
Yogi Berra
Never answer an anonymous letter.
Yogi Berra
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
A general comment on the game of baseball.
Yogi Berra
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
Commenting on a restaurant in St. Louis called Ruggeri's.
Yogi Berra
Pair up in threes.
Instruction as a coach.
Yogi Berra
So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
Yogi Berra
Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting.
Yogi Berra
Surprise me!
When asked by his wife Carmen where he would like to be buried.
Yogi Berra
The future ain't what it used to be.
Yogi Berra
The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
Yogi Berra
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
Yogi Berra
There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
Yogi Berra
Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra
We have a good time together, even when we're not together.
Talking about his wife Carmen.
Yogi Berra
We have deep depth.
Yogi Berra
We made too many wrong mistakes.
Yogi Berra
What? You mean right now?
When asked what time it is.
Yogi Berra
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Directions to his house involved either fork leading there.
Yogi Berra
Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel!
Yogi Berra
You better make it four, I don't think I could eat eight.
After being asked how many slices should be cut in his pizza.
Yogi Berra
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot by watching.
Yogi Berra
You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.
Yogi Berra
You don't look so hot yourself.
Replying to the Mayor of New York's wife after being told that he looked cool in his summer suit.
Yogi Berra
You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.
Yogi Berra
You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
Yogi Berra
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
Yogi Berra
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra
This record is not tainted at all. At all. Period.
Spoken after breaking Hank Aaron's Major League Baseball all-time home-run record
with his 756th career homer amid rampant speculation that he has used steroids.
Barry Bonds
All you guys lied. All of you guys said that I went in there and said I wanted to be a
celebrity. All of you guys are going to say I'm a horrible person, anyway, so why does it matter?
Speaking to reporters, expressing his frustration and sense of being misrepresented by the media.
Barry Bonds
And like I said, after I retire, I'll have a lot more time to—to do things with you guys,
and—and I'll have a lot more time to—to, you know, to—to be more open with you guys.
From a 2004 press conference, showing a rare, more conciliatory and reflective side toward the media.
Barry Bonds
As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
Barry Bonds
Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in both.
Barry Bonds
Baseball is just my job.
Barry Bonds
But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
Barry Bonds
Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.
Barry Bonds
Everybody's going to write what they want to write. I can't control that. I can only control what I do on the field.
Barry Bonds
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
Barry Bonds
I am a great player. Now, I want to be a Hall of Famer. I want to be a great Hall of Famer.
Barry Bonds
I could learn how to press Record
on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
Barry Bonds
I don't know. I'm not a tape recorder. I don't remember everything.
His frequent response during his 2003 grand jury testimony regarding the BALCO scandal when asked about specific details.
Barry Bonds
I don't know. I'm not an expert. I'm a baseball player.
Another common refrain from his grand jury testimony, distancing himself from knowledge of specific substances.
Barry Bonds
I don't know. I wasn't really paying attention.
Another response from his grand jury testimony, highlighting his evasive strategy.
Barry Bonds
I don't know what my future is.
Barry Bonds
I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
Barry Bonds
I don't think you can ever be a complete ballplayer without that World Series ring.
Expressing his desire to win a championship, a goal he never achieved.
Barry Bonds
I don't want to be a Major League coach.
Barry Bonds
I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
Barry Bonds
I have never seen anything. I have never seen any records. And if I have, I don't remember.
Regarding allegations and documents about his alleged steroid use.
Barry Bonds
I hit it off the scoreboard? I thought I hit it in the water.
After hitting a massive home run, showcasing his confidence and power.
Barry Bonds
I just clear my mind, like I'm in a fog. I don't hear anything. I don't see anything. I'm just looking for that little ball.
Barry Bonds
I keep telling you guys, I'm not trying to hit home runs. I'm trying to get a pitch I can hit hard.
Barry Bonds
I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.
Barry Bonds
I love California. I'm a California kid. I was raised here. I love the weather. I love the people.
Barry Bonds
I love the game of baseball. I love the history of it. I respect the history of it.
Barry Bonds
I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.
Barry Bonds
I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
Barry Bonds
I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father
played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
Barry Bonds
I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be
part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.
Barry Bonds
I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
Barry Bonds
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
Barry Bonds
I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.
Barry Bonds
I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
Barry Bonds
I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out
there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.
Barry Bonds
I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own
school of baseball. Find a facility, find a place and just teach kids. That's what I want to do.
Barry Bonds
I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
Barry Bonds
I'm not trying to be Babe Ruth. I'm not trying to be
Henry Aaron. I'm just trying to be Barry Bonds.
Barry Bonds
I'm not trying to be rude. I'm just trying to get dressed and get out of here.
A typical response to reporters in the locker room, illustrating his often-strained relationship with the media.
Barry Bonds
It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
Barry Bonds
It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
Barry Bonds
Let them investigate. Let them. I have no concern about it.
His public stance during the federal investigation into BALCO.
Barry Bonds
Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure.
Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.
Barry Bonds
My career is an open book, but my life is not.
Barry Bonds
My father is my hero. Everything I am, and everything I've become, is because of him.
Speaking about his father, former MLB star Bobby Bonds.
Barry Bonds
My godfather was a great man. You don't let anyone tarnish that.
Referring to Willie Mays and defending him from criticism.
Barry Bonds
Nobody is going to put more pressure on me than I put on myself.
Barry Bonds
So, what are you going to do now? You wanted me to jump rope? I'm not a horse. I don't do tricks.
A defiant remark to reporters after hitting his 71st and 72nd home runs in 2001, responding to their constant demands.
Barry Bonds
The boos really motivate me to make something happen.
(variant:
Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
)
Barry Bonds
The only thing that matters is winning. All the individual stuff is nice, but it doesn't mean anything if you don't win.
Barry Bonds
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
A quote often attributed to Hank Aaron that Bonds has repeated, reflecting his hitting philosophy.
Barry Bonds
There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.
Barry Bonds
There's not too many rich black people in this world.
Barry Bonds
This is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, besides dealing with the media.
Said during his pursuit of Hank Aaron's all-time home run record, highlighting his contentious relationship with the press.
Barry Bonds
This record is not tainted at all. At all. Period.
Spoken after breaking Hank Aaron's Major League Baseball all-time home-run record
with his 756th career homer amid rampant speculation that he has used steroids.
Barry Bonds
Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
Barry Bonds
When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
Barry Bonds
When you're a baseball player, you're a baseball player. That's what you do. That's what you love.
Barry Bonds
You can't script this. It's unbelievable.
After hitting his 756th career home run to break Hank Aaron's record in 2007.
Barry Bonds
You wanted me to say it, so I'll say it: I'm Barry Bonds, and I'm the best hitter in the world.
Barry Bonds
Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
Barry Bonds
Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get
anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
Garth Brooks
There it is, ladies and gentlemen, The Bronx is burning.
During Game 2 of the 1977 World Series at Yankee Stadium as a camera panned a few blocks away.
Howard Cosell
I finally get to see Marilyn.
Referring to ex-wife Marilyn Monroe.
Joe DiMaggio
Nice guys. Finish last.
Leo Durocher
Today, I consider myself, the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939.
Lou Gehrig
I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
Jacob deGrom
I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.
Gene Mauch
This is our fucking city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.
Remarks to Fenway Park crowd after memorial service for Boston Marathon bombing victims on April 20, 2013.
David Ortiz
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige
See the ball, hit the ball.
Pete Rose
I'm going over the valley.
Babe Ruth
All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.
Casey Stengel
I'm going to take my talents to South Beach.
Spoken during a broadcast dedicated solely to James' basketball team decision on July 8, 2010.
LeBron James
Not One, Not Two, Not Three, Not Four, Not Five, Not Six, Not Seven...
Referring to the number of championships he intends on winning.
LeBron James
My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as
well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.
Jeremy Lin
A large edifice!
Bill Raftery
A little blow by ability.
Bill Raftery
A little head and shoulder. No dandruff, but a blow-by!
Bill Raftery
A little kiss.
Bill Raftery
A little pirouette, and they said this was a beer town!
Bill Raftery
A little ricochet romance!
Bill Raftery
A Whirling Dervish!
Bill Raftery
And when you're sleepless in Seattle, why not get a little kiss?
Bill Raftery
And the kiss off the glass.
Bill Raftery
Attacking the tin!
Bill Raftery
Bottle of blackout!
Bill Raftery
Bring your lunch!
Bill Raftery
Count your chiclets!
Bill Raftery
Chubby Checker Do the Twist!
Bill Raftery
Dagger!
Bill Raftery
Dairy Farmer.
Bill Raftery
Divine intervention!
Bill Raftery
Drops the dime...with a kiss!
Bill Raftery
Elevation!
Bill Raftery
Fill the lane! Provide the lift!
Bill Raftery
From the right wing!
Bill Raftery
Get the puppies organized!
Bill Raftery
(insert co-announcer's name), (insert team name) goes man to man!
Bill Raftery
He can do it all; let him into the band!
Bill Raftery
He can make you ask for your mommy.
Bill Raftery
He takes it to the promised land!
Bill Raftery
He's got the puppies sent off the bus.
Bill Raftery
I wheel the wheelbarrow down the street to the tin!
Bill Raftery
Jambalaya!
Response to Verne Lundquist saying: I hope Dwyane Wade likes cajun cooking!
Bill Raftery
Like a Belgian waffle....Sweet!
Bill Raftery
Most unattractive, but beneficial.
Bill Raftery
Nylon!
Bill Raftery
Nylon teeth, by the guard!
Bill Raftery
Onions!
Bill Raftery
Over early, huh Steve?
Spoken to Steve Albert when the Celtics were blowing out the Nets in the 1st quarter.
Bill Raftery
Protect the women and children!
Bill Raftery
Put a little English on it.
Bill Raftery
Send it in, big fella!
Bill Raftery
Send it in, Jerome!
Pittsburgh Panther's Jerome Lane's famous backboard shattering dunk on January 25, 1988.
Bill Raftery
Send it in, medium size fella!
Bill Raftery
Shakes the dust off...Call the Janitor!
Bill Raftery
Strong...to the goal!
Bill Raftery
Tayshaun is not a Prince, he's a King. Strokin' the Trey!
After Tayshaun Prince hit 5 three pointers to start the game.
Bill Raftery
That was a Tavernly Discard.
Bill Raftery
The big guy.
Bill Raftery
The bounce to ecstasy.
Bill Raftery
The dexterity, The agility!
Bill Raftery
The fella, from Saint Louie Louie!
After Bradley Beal started to take over.
Bill Raftery
The fill-up from distance!
Bill Raftery
The little guy...with the big ticker!
Bill Raftery
The small change.
Bill Raftery
The vegetable cart.
Bill Raftery
There's a little lingerie on the deck.
Bill Raftery
They're playing a (insert zone defense name) zone with man to man principles!
Bill Raftery
Walter at the altar: High Mass!
Bill Raftery
We got a 5 bagger.
After 4th overtime of Connecticut vs Syracuse 2009 Big East tournament quarterfinal.
Bill Raftery
We got a little nickle-dimer here.
Bill Raftery
Welcome to the block party!
Bill Raftery
Why the lefties look so pretty with that stroke, it's amazing.
Bill Raftery
With a little dipsy do.
Bill Raftery
With a little smoocher!
Bill Raftery
With authority!
Bill Raftery
With disdain to the tin!
Bill Raftery
(insert player's name) with some early onions!
Bill Raftery
With the blow-by.
Bill Raftery
With the kiss.
Bill Raftery
With the dribble drive.
Bill Raftery
With the teardrop, that'll make you cry.
Bill Raftery
With three first, then the deuce!
Bill Raftery
You might call this Newton's Law!
Bill Raftery
We are all Lakers today.
Remark to reporters after the death of Kobe Bryant, Orlando, Florida, January 26, 2020.
Doc Rivers
Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is
the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.
Pat Summitt
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
Muhammad Ali
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Muhammad Ali
Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and
when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.
Muhammad Ali
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
Muhammad Ali
All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
Muhammad Ali
Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up
for God, fight
for God, work
for God and
do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.
Muhammad Ali
America is the greatest country in the world.
Muhammad Ali
Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.
Muhammad Ali
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
Muhammad Ali
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad Ali
Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that
I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.
Muhammad Ali
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a
dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali
Don't feel sorry for me.
Muhammad Ali
Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.
Muhammad Ali
Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!
Muhammad Ali
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.
Muhammad Ali
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.
Muhammad Ali
God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich,
and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they
get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
Muhammad Ali
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
Muhammad Ali
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm
gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him.
Muhammad Ali
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.
Muhammad Ali
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
Muhammad Ali
I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.
Muhammad Ali
I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say
to me, Why did you do that?
This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.
Muhammad Ali
I don't have to be what you want me to be.
Muhammad Ali
I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail;
only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick.
Muhammad Ali
I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.
Muhammad Ali
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
Muhammad Ali
I give thanks to God and
to all the people in the UK who have supported me over the years.
Muhammad Ali
I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
Muhammad Ali
I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back.
Muhammad Ali
I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
Muhammad Ali
I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
Muhammad Ali
I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the
screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets
them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.
Muhammad Ali
I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
Muhammad Ali
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Muhammad Ali
I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right.
That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Muhammad Ali
I said I was The Greatest,
I never said I was the smartest!
Muhammad Ali
I shook up the world, I shook up the world.
Muhammad Ali
I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm
beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.
Muhammad Ali
I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.
Muhammad Ali
I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.
Muhammad Ali
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
Muhammad Ali
I would say things like I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like
a bee! I'm pretty!
When white people heard me talking like this, some said, That black man talks too much. He's bragging.
Muhammad Ali
I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
Muhammad Ali
I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.
Muhammad Ali
I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.
Muhammad Ali
I'm no leader; I'm a little humble follower.
Muhammad Ali
I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
Muhammad Ali
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Muhammad Ali
I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived.
Muhammad Ali
I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites
when Jesus and
Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.
Muhammad Ali
I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.
Muhammad Ali
I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.
Muhammad Ali
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.
Muhammad Ali
If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.
Muhammad Ali
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
Muhammad Ali
If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.
Muhammad Ali
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
Muhammad Ali
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
Muhammad Ali
It's in my blood to be around people while I was training.
Muhammad Ali
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Muhammad Ali
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
Muhammad Ali
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali
Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.
Muhammad Ali
Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.
Muhammad Ali
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die
every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad Ali
Life is so, so short. Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.
Muhammad Ali
Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
Muhammad Ali
My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, The Intoxication
of Life,
The Purpose of Life,
The Real Cause of Man's Distress,
The Journey to the Goal in Life,
and,
one of my favorites, The Heart of Man.
They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.
Muhammad Ali
My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
Muhammad Ali
My principles are more important than the money or my title.
Muhammad Ali
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Muhammad Ali
My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight
the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice.
Muhammad Ali
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
Muhammad Ali
Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.
Muhammad Ali
No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white
boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.
Muhammad Ali
No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
Muhammad Ali
No, I am not going 10,000 miles to help murder, kill, and burn other people to simply help continue the domination of
white slavemasters over dark people the world over. This is the day and age when such evil injustice must come to an end.
Muhammad Ali
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his
soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali
People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy,
there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was
the Elvis of boxing.
Muhammad Ali
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Muhammad Ali
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali
Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking
lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
Muhammad Ali
Superman don't need no seat belt.
Muhammad Ali
Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all
this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.
Muhammad Ali
The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?
Muhammad Ali
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world -
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I
joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.
Muhammad Ali
The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to
force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn't want us? Why not clean up our own
neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people's neighborhoods?
Muhammad Ali
The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.
Muhammad Ali
The white man is destroying the world.
Muhammad Ali
The word Islam
means peace.
The word Muslim
means one who surrenders
to God.
But the press makes us seem like haters.
Muhammad Ali
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Muhammad Ali
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
Muhammad Ali
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Muhammad Ali
To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the
USA won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, You're better than the Cassius of old.
Muhammad Ali
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali
We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to
integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all.
Muhammad Ali
What keeps me going is goals.
Muhammad Ali
When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.
Muhammad Ali
White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.
Muhammad Ali
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown
people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
Muhammad Ali
You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.
Muhammad Ali
You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned?
Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.
Muhammad Ali
Don't touch me, I'll beat your brains out.
Replying to Muhammad Ali's fist being pressed to his chin.
Howard Cosell
Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!
When George Foreman knocked out then-heavyweight champion Joe Frazier on January 22, 1973.
Howard Cosell
I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life.
Leon Spinks
I wanna eat his children.
Trash talking about Lennox Lewis.
Mike Tyson
I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not
going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar
A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
Lance Armstrong
Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.
Lance Armstrong
But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
Lance Armstrong
Chasing records doesn’t keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
Lance Armstrong
Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
Lance Armstrong
Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain.
Lance Armstrong
Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
Lance Armstrong
For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate
Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.
Lance Armstrong
I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
Lance Armstrong
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
Lance Armstrong
I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
Lance Armstrong
I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
Lance Armstrong
I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
Lance Armstrong
I never doped.
Lance Armstrong
I still don't get golf.
Lance Armstrong
I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and
going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.
Lance Armstrong
I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
Lance Armstrong
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think
about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
Lance Armstrong
If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
Lance Armstrong
If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
Lance Armstrong
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
Lance Armstrong
It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
Lance Armstrong
It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
Lance Armstrong
It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take
on Tiger.
Lance Armstrong
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
Lance Armstrong
Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
Lance Armstrong
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
Lance Armstrong
Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
Lance Armstrong
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment
have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
Lance Armstrong
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
Lance Armstrong
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it
will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong
Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
Lance Armstrong
The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
Lance Armstrong
There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: Enough is enough.
Lance Armstrong
There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
Lance Armstrong
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
Lance Armstrong
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
Lance Armstrong
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
Lance Armstrong
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams
Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an
executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business.
Jean Baudrillard
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford
Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
Robert M. Hutchins
I think the most ridiculous sight in the world is a man on a bicycle, working away with his feet as hard as he
possibly can, and believing that his horse is carrying him, instead of, as anyone can see, he carrying the horse.
George Bernard Shaw
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
Mark Twain
I have never taken any exercise, except for sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome.
Mark Twain
I take my only exercise acting as pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
Mark Twain
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
Oscar Wilde
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only
compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
Samuel Johnson
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck
He could go all the way!
One of the most famous sports quips of all time.
Howard Cosell
Look at that little monkey run!
Commenting on a 97-yard kickoff return by Washington Redskins player Herb Mul-Key.
Howard Cosell
That little monkey gets loose, doesn't he?
Describing Washington Redskins wide receiver Alvin Garrett during a Monday Night Football telecast on
September 5, 1983. This comment was denounced as being racist and a public apology was demanded but refused.
Howard Cosell
You play to win the game!
Herm Edwards
The team will never be known as the Remington Shavers, but I could see possibly using some of the players to promote the product.
Speaking in January, 1989.
Victor Kiam
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
It's not a matter of life and death, it's more important than that!
Henry Russell Sanders
Men, I'll be honest. Winning isn't everything. Men, it's the only thing!
Version A.
Henry Russell Sanders
Sure, winning isn't every thing; it's the only thing.
Version B.
Henry Russell Sanders
The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth - all that is illusion.
O. J. Simpson
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin P. Adams
Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside
of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemetries.
Saul Bellow
That was a great game of golf, fellers.
Bing Crosby
Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.
Don Herold
I can tell more about how someone is likely to react in a business situation from one round of golf than I can from a hundred hours of meetings.
Mark McCormack
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.
Lee Westwood
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
Tiger Woods
I want to say to each of you, simply and directly, I am deeply sorry for my
irresponsible and selfish behavior. I have let you down. I have let down my fans.
Tiger Woods
Do you believe in miracles?
When the United States defeated the Soviets in hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Al Michaels
Woe betide the man who dares to pay a woman a compliment today ... Forget the flowers, the chocolates, the soft
word - rather woo her with a self-defence manual in one hand and a family planning leaflet in the other.
Alan Ayckbourn
I feel I could be a role model to other Hispanic gymnasts interested in the sport, but I also want them to
understand the importance of being focused, determined, and not giving up, despite all the struggles.
Laurie Hernandez
My mother was in the Army Reserve for six years. She taught me the importance of following rules, finishing what I start,
never giving up, leadership skills, teamwork, staying positive, motivated and how to pack the military way when I'm traveling!
Laurie Hernandez
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Bruce Lee
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bruce Lee
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee
As you think, so shall you become.
Bruce Lee
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function
and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
Bruce Lee
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
Bruce Lee
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into
your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Bruce Lee
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only
light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Bruce Lee
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce Lee
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee
Real living is living for others.
Bruce Lee
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
Bruce Lee
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Bruce Lee
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Bruce Lee
The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce Lee
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Bruce Lee
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bruce Lee
You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
Bruce Lee
I'm hungrier than all of them. They didn't put in the effort that I did to get the title. So I don't care
what it takes - I'm not giving up that title. I worked too hard to get it, and I'm not going to lose it.
Stipe Miocic
I thought about giving up the sport, but I have a lot of good people around me: my
wife, Nina, my family. Everybody keeps helping me to be positive and moving forward.
Amanda Nunes
Man is the only animal that plays poker.
Don Herold
Piano
At 66 Sandringham Crescent
an upright piano was being eased down
a long flight of stairs by three men
all wearing off-white overalls.
Backward, staccato, two stepped
descending
one
stair
at
a
time
till the taller of the two men
began to collapse in slow
slow slow motion
and the piano
leapt
to the hallway's rising floor
crashing its memories of music:
simple tunes such as 3 Blind Mice,
as well as great meaningful sonatas
of profundity and faraway,
into a scattered anarchic jigsaw
of free-loving volatile
meaningless sounds
fading
till the stricken piano
lost its memory entirely.
After the ambulance arrived (too late)
one removal man lit a cigarette
and sensing the wide-awake stare
of the householder
tapped the grey ash, with great delicacy,
into the cupped hollow of his left hand.
Running Late
Dannie Abse
I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.
Bella Abzug
Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an
executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business.
Jean Baudrillard
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck
Running after women never hurt anybody - it's catching 'em that does the damage.
Jack Davies
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for
success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
Bertie Forbes
When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
Oliver Herford
My parents always enforce the idea of never giving up upon all of my siblings
and me, and I think that's something that will stick with me my whole life.
Nathan Chen
You can take it for granted that I am not going to waste any time thinking about
giving up how happy I am at Borussia, in the city of Dortmund, and with this team.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Some people are on the pitch. They think it's all over - it is now!
Kenneth Wolstenholme
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck
The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won, but to have fought well.
Pierre de Coubertin
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.
Carly Fiorina
I feel I could be a role model to other Hispanic gymnasts interested in the sport, but I also want them to
understand the importance of being focused, determined, and not giving up, despite all the struggles.
Laurie Hernandez
My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
Caitlyn Jenner
I thought about giving up the sport, but I have a lot of good people around me: my
wife, Nina, my family. Everybody keeps helping me to be positive and moving forward.
Amanda Nunes
I think the most ridiculous sight in the world is a man on a bicycle, working away with his feet as hard as he
possibly can, and believing that his horse is carrying him, instead of, as anyone can see, he carrying the horse.
George Bernard Shaw
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're
still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't
recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.
Douglas Adams
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is
just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us.
Douglas Adams
When that glass broke and Stone Cold
was making an entrance, and that roof blew off that building,
that sends you higher than life or anything that I know of. It's an adrenaline rush you can't explain.
Steve Austin
I've got my hardcore fans, and I thank them so much for being there for me and not giving up on me.
Jeff Hardy
Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and only the pig enjoys himself.
Mark McCormack
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