Inspiring quotes from Virender Sehwag's twitter page

Virender Sehwag is my favorite cricket player. Sharing some of famous quotes collected from his twitter page

"Living is very simple..loving is simple..wining is also simple..laughing is too simple..but, being SIMPLE is very difficult!"

"In our real life,we know very well,what is right,true n justified. Problem is,we can't follow it from our side,but we expect it from others."

"Champions are not supernatural,they just fight one more second when everyone else quits,sometimes one second of effort gives you the victory."

"To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work."
(Quote by Sister Mary Lauretta)

"The difference between ability and character...Ability can take you at the top...But it is character which keeps you at the top."

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Michael Johnson famous athlete quotes

Few of the famous athlete quotes by the famous retired American sprinter Michael Johnson

"As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion."

"The only one who can beat me is me."

"I'm just trying to learn as much as I can every day. I've got some great guys in front of me and great coaches around me,"

"They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody."

"Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best"

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Excellence is not a singular act - Shaq quote

"Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do."
~ Shaquille ONeal

Brian Lara famous quotes collection

"I woke up at 4am with my hands sweating and couldn't get back to sleep. I've been batting the innings since then, and now it's finished I'm very happy."
(on scoring 375 vs England, Antigua 1994)

"In the past I often reacted to what I perceived to be the stresses of cricket by getting away from it and hanging out with friends. Instead of confronting problems, I would turn my back on them. Now I've realised I want to give cricket 100%."

"You can't play a patience game with them. They take command and like to take command and if you let them, they will."
(Lara on how to beat Australia Cricket Team)

"Sachin is a genius. I'm a mere mortal."
(Lara on Sachin)

"At this stage of his career it doesn't matter where Brian Lara bats. It's important that a guy stands up and wants to bat in that position. It's a pivotal position in any batting order and [Ramnaresh] Sarwan is one of the premier batsmen in our team. And if he puts up his hand and wants to do it, especially with low scores behind him, it shows a lot of character. And you're seeing the results of it all today."
(Lara during West Indies v India, 3rd Test, St Kitts, when he was asked why he didn't bat at No.3)

Sachin Tendulkar famous cricket quotes

Few famous quotes on cricket and himself by the great cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar

"Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport."

"At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match."

"Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field."

"I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream."

"I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result."

"If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong."

"I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me."

"I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself."

"When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well."

"I think I have already spoken a lot. Now it is time for me to play."

Famous quotes by Andre Agassi - Tennis legend

Some of famous sayings by the former world no 1 tennis player, Andre Kirk Agassi

"And I think if people could hear what the coaches are saying, they will realize there's a lot more to this game than hitting the ball."

"You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is."

"Being number two sucks."

"What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose."

"Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it"

"I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour."

"I hope (my fans are) excited. I don't get to be in too many finals any more."

"Everybody here is taking the day out of their lives to come watch me, and I thank you for that,"

"If you don't practice you don't deserve to win."

"I think the loudest noise in the world is 23,000 quiet New Yorkers"
(On benefiting from partisan crowd during victory in first round of 2006 US Open, his last ever tournament)

"It's a weird feeling. You just sort of expect to leave the dance with the ones you came with. When they decide that it's time for them, it's a sad feeling."
(After Pete Sampras announced his retirement 2003)

Famous quotes by Muhammad Ali

Few inspiring quotes from the best heavyweight boxing champions ever, Muhammad Ali

"Old age is just a record of one's whole life."

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."

"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."

"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."

"I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world."

"My toughest fight was with my first wife."

"If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize."

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

"There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people."

Pete Sampras famous quotes collection

Few of great quotes from the former World No 1 tennis player Pete Sampras

“I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.”

“I just had to hang in there and make sure I was dictating play,”

“The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.”

“Clay will be the toughest surface for Roger. If things go right, if the weather's right, I think he can win it.”
~ On Roger Federer

"When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years."

"You kind of live and die by the serve."

"People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity."

"In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically."

"For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1."

"There`s always one shot that I can rely on when I`m not hitting the ball that well, is my serve."

Famous quotes by Donald Bradman

Some of famous quotes from the Australian cricketer and the Cricket Legend Sir Donald Bradman


"I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat."

"If there is a threat to the game of cricket, that threat lies in the first class arena. One day cricket, especially day-night cricket, is here to stay."

Some of his sayings from his last interview in 1996

"Many cricketers who had more ability than I had, Why they didn't make more runs than I did, I don't know"

"Undoubtedly the best all-round cricketer I've ever set eyes on"
~ Sir Donald Bradman on West Indies' Gary Sobers

"The best thing that's happened to the game for many years"
~ Sir Donald Bradman on Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne

"Every ball went exactly where I wanted it to go until the ball that got me out"
~ On his 254 scored at Lord's

"I'm very sorry I made a duck, I'd have been glad if I'd made those four extra runs to have an average of 100. I didn't know it at the time and I don't think the Englishmen knew it either. I think if they had known it they may have been generous enough to let me get four"

"Of course that's rubbish. I was certainly emotional, but I wasn't that bad. But I was very sad walking out. I felt I'd let the people down"
~ Denying the question that he got out because of tears in his eyes

"Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development"
~ Bradman on match- fixing

"A good captain must be a fighter; confident but not arrogant, firm but not obstinate; able to take criticism without letting it unduly disturb him, for he is sure to get it - and unfairly, too,"

Pele famous quotes on soccer collection

Some of the famous quotes from the Brazilian football soccer legend Pele

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."

"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string."

"Everything is practice."

"A penalty is a cowardly way to score."

“I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.”

"Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man."

"For 20 years they have been asking me the same question, who is the greatest? Maradona or Pele? I reply that all you have to do is look at the facts - how many goals did he score with his right foot or with his head?"

"He is the greatest player in the world right now, without a doubt, he is the player who gives (Brazilians) the most joy." Pele, on Ronaldinho

"The House of Commons is a great unwieldy body, which requires great Art and some Cordials to keep it loyal."

"I think he'll reach 1000 goals, but he'll never overtake my total." Pele on Romario

Viv Richards famous cricket quotes

Some of famous quotes from the West Indies cricket great Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards

"One day cricket is like fast food. No one wants to cook."

"I hope the Young West Indian players or today do realised the mantle on which they are standing"

"Man, it don't matter where you come in to bat, the score is still zero" (Viv Richards to Sunil Gavaskar at Madras 1983)

“This thing must stop and the authorities must treat this like someone with a nuclear bomb. If you have the fabric which is human civilization and human society being brought down because of color and race, to me, that is like a killer with a nuclear reactor in his hand.”

Greg Thomas was bowling to Viv Richards in a county game. Viv missed a superb outswinger, and Thomas said "It's red, round and weighs about 5 ounces. "Next ball Viv hits Greg Thomas out of the ground and replies, "Greg, you know what it looks like. Go ahead and find it !"

Wayne Gretzky famous quotes collection

Some of the famous quotes from one of the legend of ice hokey, Wayne Douglas Gretzky

"100% of the shots you don't take don't go in."

"The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me."

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. "

"The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it. "

"I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach. "

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."

"I heard people say, 'Why would he want to do this?' My answer is 'Why not?' It is what I love. It's what I know"

"He just has to get off to the kind of start that he's capable of and it's as simple as that."

"This team seems to be more talented. Whether we win or not though remains to be seen"

"At the end of the day, everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened"

Tennis famous quotes collection

Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it's everything.
~Unknown

Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player
~John McPhee

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.
~Roger Kahn

Tennis begins with love.
~Author Unknown

I'll let the racket do the talking.
~John McEnroe

The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.
~Boris Becker

It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.
~Pete Sampras

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.
~Virginia Graham

The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.
~Elliot Chaze

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.
~Billie Jean King

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.
~Martina Navratilova

On retiring early- Being a champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
~Althea Gibson

At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.
~John Newcombe

Diego Maradona famous quotes collection

Some of the famous quotes from the great footballer Diego Maradona

"When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end" - Maradona on the excitement of playing for national team, Argentina

"Even if there was a hand, it was the hand of God." Diego Maradona, after scoring with his hand against England at World Cup '86

"The Lord helps those who help themselves."

"I've come to add something and not to take away anyone's position"

"I am calm, ... My surname is not a burden for me. It might be for others, but not for me."

"I did it with the hand of reason." Diego Maradona, after smashing a photographers car

"God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of the cross when I walk out onto the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't."

"I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday" - Maradona, 1996, as part of Argentina's anti-drugs campaign.

"I had the vote of the people. Pele won by the book." - Maradona, leaving little doubt who he thinks deserved the FIFA award.