Editorial »

Citizen Quotes Sports Page #377

Here you'll find fresh and interesting quotes from the news wire collected automatically by our smart bots...

As a member of the team I'm welcoming the review because changes need to be made, there are still people working there that aren't in it for the right reasons. – Liam Phillips	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's been a little hit and miss to be honest, it's a difficult balancing act. The injury risk is quite high in BMX. I didn't need to win any races because my Olympic spot was guaranteed. I was racing at 99 percent rather than 100 percent and it showed. – Liam Phillips	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You have to earn your way off the Tour, and you have to blast your way out, no one wants to limp their way off. (Pete) Sampras had the perfect send-off. – Mike Bryan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We came in together we'll go out together. – Mike Bryan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The first feeling if I meet them (in competition) is that I'm very unlucky, because it's very difficult to beat them and it feels like the match may be over very quickly, but the Chinese team represents the highest level of competition, one also wants to see how wide the gap is between them and I. After all, you won't always get a chance to exchange blows with such high standards. – Melek Hu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I'm happy for now, I came here to win the race and I feel like the time will come in Rio, i'm comfortable with being tagged as the favorite (in Rio), I'm never nervous, which is good for me. – Dafne Schippers	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
For the first time ever we have three different styles of victory ceremonies, this is my eighth Olympic Games and I've always wanted to do this. And music in Brazil is so amazing that's it's a great opportunity to show that. – Christy Nicolay	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
But, frankly speaking, I am a mother after all and will be a fan of my son in Rio. – Nino Salukvadze	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's a double joy for me, because I will participate in the Olympics for the first time in my life and because I will compete in Rio alongside my mother. – Tsotne Machavariani	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If I do that I have a chance to take a break from Diamond League 100 meters hurdles until world championships and try to get another record in the 400 hurdles, my main focus( next year) will be the 400 hurdles until the worlds and I will try to do both. – Keni Harrison	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is unfortunate I didn't get top three. – Keni Harrison	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
( I want to) try to get another record in the 400 hurdles. – Keni Harrison	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I just tried to push all of the doubt out of my mind... I just told Keni Harrison you know that you are the best. I just kept saying that over and over again. – Keni Harrison	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The main thing I have to my advantage is that I'm able to get a really clean entry into the water, so I make very little splash, i'm just to keep it really, really simple and just try to get the most consistent performance because I feel like people will make mistakes. – Yona Knight-Wisdom	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Getting into the pool, I feel I'm unshackling myself from the worry and stress. Swimming definitely takes my mind off things. – Le Clos	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It has not been an easy time but I am training hard for Rio, more than anything else I want (my parents) to win their battles. I also hope they will be in Rio. – Le Clos	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You can tell she is very goal oriented, and for me it brought me back to kind of what I was like way, way, way back in the day, every time she gets in the water, it's like a world record, so she is improving so much and I think she is just trying to push that barrier. – Michael Phelps	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As soon as you hit the water and you've had that first shave down, it's a completely different feeling. You feel just completely different in the water, and then you pair that with the fact that you're fully rested, you're ready to go, you shave, all those feelings sort of come together. Suit on, you just sit completely differently in the water. – Chris Walker-Hebborn	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This time around, I just want to be able to help some of the younger guys, just being able to help them just kind of stay in their relaxed zone, not get worked up because it is the Olympics. – Michael Phelps	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I do understand that I have to swim faster to have a chance to win the gold medal, i've trusted that man since I was 11 years old, and it's not going to stop. – Michael Phelps	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They are not coming because there's no prize money. – Rio Games	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Now it is a double defeat for the city: sport and environment. – Marcus Leal	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Yes, this intervention takes different forms today, but the essence remains the same, to make sport an instrument for geopolitical pressure and use it to form a negative image of countries and peoples. – Vladimir Putin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Voters don't link domestic problems, such as those with the economy, to Putin, for them it's other people who are to blame. – Stepan Goncharov	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

As a member of the team I'm welcoming the review because changes need to be made, there are still people working there that aren't in it for the right reasons.

– Liam Phillips

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's been a little hit and miss to be honest, it's a difficult balancing act. The injury risk is quite high in BMX. I didn't need to win any races because my Olympic spot was guaranteed. I was racing at 99 percent rather than 100 percent and it showed.

– Liam Phillips

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You have to earn your way off the Tour, and you have to blast your way out, no one wants to limp their way off. (Pete) Sampras had the perfect send-off.

– Mike Bryan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We came in together we'll go out together.

– Mike Bryan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The first feeling if I meet them (in competition) is that I'm very unlucky, because it's very difficult to beat them and it feels like the match may be over very quickly, but the Chinese team represents the highest level of competition, one also wants to see how wide the gap is between them and I. After all, you won't always get a chance to exchange blows with such high standards.

– Melek Hu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm happy for now, I came here to win the race and I feel like the time will come in Rio, i'm comfortable with being tagged as the favorite (in Rio), I'm never nervous, which is good for me.

– Dafne Schippers

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For the first time ever we have three different styles of victory ceremonies, this is my eighth Olympic Games and I've always wanted to do this. And music in Brazil is so amazing that's it's a great opportunity to show that.

– Christy Nicolay

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

But, frankly speaking, I am a mother after all and will be a fan of my son in Rio.

– Nino Salukvadze

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a double joy for me, because I will participate in the Olympics for the first time in my life and because I will compete in Rio alongside my mother.

– Tsotne Machavariani

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If I do that I have a chance to take a break from Diamond League 100 meters hurdles until world championships and try to get another record in the 400 hurdles, my main focus( next year) will be the 400 hurdles until the worlds and I will try to do both.

– Keni Harrison

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is unfortunate I didn't get top three.

– Keni Harrison

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

( I want to) try to get another record in the 400 hurdles.

– Keni Harrison

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I just tried to push all of the doubt out of my mind... I just told Keni Harrison you know that you are the best. I just kept saying that over and over again.

– Keni Harrison

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The main thing I have to my advantage is that I'm able to get a really clean entry into the water, so I make very little splash, i'm just to keep it really, really simple and just try to get the most consistent performance because I feel like people will make mistakes.

– Yona Knight-Wisdom

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Getting into the pool, I feel I'm unshackling myself from the worry and stress. Swimming definitely takes my mind off things.

– Le Clos

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It has not been an easy time but I am training hard for Rio, more than anything else I want (my parents) to win their battles. I also hope they will be in Rio.

– Le Clos

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You can tell she is very goal oriented, and for me it brought me back to kind of what I was like way, way, way back in the day, every time she gets in the water, it's like a world record, so she is improving so much and I think she is just trying to push that barrier.

– Michael Phelps

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As soon as you hit the water and you've had that first shave down, it's a completely different feeling. You feel just completely different in the water, and then you pair that with the fact that you're fully rested, you're ready to go, you shave, all those feelings sort of come together. Suit on, you just sit completely differently in the water.

– Chris Walker-Hebborn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This time around, I just want to be able to help some of the younger guys, just being able to help them just kind of stay in their relaxed zone, not get worked up because it is the Olympics.

– Michael Phelps

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I do understand that I have to swim faster to have a chance to win the gold medal, i've trusted that man since I was 11 years old, and it's not going to stop.

– Michael Phelps

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They are not coming because there's no prize money.

– Rio Games

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Now it is a double defeat for the city: sport and environment.

– Marcus Leal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Yes, this intervention takes different forms today, but the essence remains the same, to make sport an instrument for geopolitical pressure and use it to form a negative image of countries and peoples.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Voters don't link domestic problems, such as those with the economy, to Putin, for them it's other people who are to blame.

– Stepan Goncharov

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Discuss these news quotations with the community:

0 Comments

Notify me of new comments via email.

Quote of the Day Today's Quote | Archive

Would you like us to send you a FREE inspiring quote delivered to your inbox daily?

Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"Citizen Quotes." Quotes.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 28 Nov. 2024. <https://www.quotes.net/citizen-quotes/citizen/Sports+Quotes>.

We need you!

Help build the largest human-edited quotes collection on the web!

The Web's Largest Resource for

Famous Quotes & Sayings

A Member Of The STANDS4 Network

Browse Quotes.net

#A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Random New Quotes

Quiz

Are you a quotes master?

Who said: " Sometimes we need to let go of our pride, and just do what others ask of us."

A Spider-man

B Padme Amidala

C Anakin Skywalker

D Shmi Skywalker