In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.

Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.

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

I think it's important to remember how quickly sports popularity can change.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

I'm forever gonna miss the start to the finish, the rush of racing downhill.

I think the sports industry and the music industry are all tied in together.

My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

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

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well.

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

I look forward to another good year next year. It would be nice to win, too.

The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

I'm passionate about my sport and grateful that I get to do it for a living.

I'm not into sports. I mean...I like Gatorade, but that's as far as it goes.

Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

Well, David Eckstein, like most of us, has 20 digits. Ten fingers. Ten toes.

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

I came out to beat everybody in sight, and that's just what I'm going to do.

The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.

I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

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