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40+ of 328🇩🇪Heidi Klum
Sports
b. 1973
"I think if you put a smile on people's faces, they give that back to you."
56 quotes
🇬🇧Lewis Hamilton
Sports
b. 1984
"We all wanna feel great. We all wanna look great, have more energy. The most important thing is about having the right fuel in your body. I can't remember feeling this great in my whole 32 years of my life."
3 quotes
🇵🇹Cristiano Ronaldo
Sports
b. 1985
"I think that because I am rich, handsome and a great player people are envious of me. I don’t have any other explanation."
4 quotes

🇺🇸Caitlyn Jenner
Sports
b. 1949
"I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans."
3 quotes
🇦🇷Lionel Messi
Sports
b. 1987
"Here he is again ... here he is again .. that's astonishing, absolutely world-class!"
10 quotes
🇺🇸LeBron James
Sports
b. 1984
"Crazy. Karma is a bitch. Gets you every time. It's not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!"
10 quotes
🇺🇸Mike Tomlin
Sports
b. 1972
"More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic."
5 quotes
🇨🇦Brendan Brazier
Sports
b. 1975
4 quotes
🇺🇸Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Sports
b. 1948
"I don't love you anymore", she whispered. "I don't love you at all." His throat closed. "It's all right, sweetheart. I love you enough for both of us."
4 quotes
🇪🇸Alfredo Di Stéfano
Sports
1926–2014
"I was a forward, and one of the obligations of a forward is to score goals."
10 quotes
🇺🇸Joe Buck
Sports
b. 1969
"Keenum steps into it. Pass is.... CAUGHT! DIGGS! SIDELINE! TOUCHDOWN! UNBELIEVABLE! VIKINGS WIN IT!"
13 quotes
🇺🇸Sugar Ray Robinson
Sports
1921–1989
"He was a tremendous puncher, with either hand. Knock you dead puncher. Knock you dead. And a terrific finisher."
15 quotes
Michael Jordan
Sports
b. 1963
"Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life."
17 quotes
🇺🇸Tiger Woods
Sports
b. 1975
"I don't see myself as the Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green."
12 quotes
🇦🇺Shane Warne
Sports
1969–2022
"I don't like him and I'm not in a club of one."
3 quotes
🇺🇸Wilt Chamberlain
Sports
1936–1999
"Chamberlain played the game the same way Russell did, except he scored so much more. But his teams had to get more points from him. He'd score 45 points and his teams would still lose."
23 quotes
🇺🇸Anna Kournikova
Sports
b. 1981
"Boyfriends have to understad my needs. I shower four times a day."
1 quotes

🇩🇪Jürgen Klopp
Sports
b. 1967
"For me, football is the only thing more inspiring than the cinema. You wake up in the morning, and the magic was all real."
12 quotes

🇺🇸Bill Rodgers
Sports
b. 1947
"No one who works 40 hours a week will beat me in a marathon."
1 quotes

🇬🇧Siân Berry
Sports
b. 1974
"Gordon Brown thinks you should solve climate change by changing your lightbulbs. We think you should solve climate change by changing your Government."
2 quotes
🇬🇧TotalBiscuit
Sports
1984–2018
"'What do you think you're doing?! Helps to have a map!' Also, 'Can you find the missing parts of my face?'"
54 quotes
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🇺🇸David Davis
Sports
1875–1954
"Nobody has ever pretended that this will be easy. I have always said that this negotiation will be tough, complex and, at times, confrontational."
10 quotes
🇬🇧Chris Kamara
Sports
b. 1957
3 quotes
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🇨🇳Li Peng
Sports
b. 1990
"The fate and future of the People's Republic of China are facing serious threat!"
1 quotes
🇺🇸Apolo Anton Ohno
Sports
b. 1982
"I always end up in the bathroom, doing his hair."
3 quotes

🇺🇸Charles Barkley
Sports
b. 1963
"It's great to be hosting SNL again. I hosted sixteen years ago. Back then I was in great shape, I was coming off an MVP season with the Phoenix Suns - now, I play bad golf, drink, sometimes I get arrested."
14 quotes
🇺🇸Danica Patrick
Sports
b. 1982
1 quotes
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🇺🇸Ian Darke
Sports
b. 1950
"I think one word we can agree Bob is, uh? Epic, classic. Thriller, block-buster. I think all the clichés were made real. I mean? You woke up this morning, saying you felt nervous about this game. Now, I know why."
62 quotes
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🇺🇸Jimmy Magee
Sports
1935–2017
"And there it is, the international symbol of peace – the pigeon!"
14 quotes
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🇬🇧James Bryce
Sports
1838–1922
"Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by James Bryce"
20 quotes
🇦🇺Don Tregonning
Sports
1928–2022
"With tennis, they say it's a social sport you can play from six to 60 - they should say 90, your friendships go on forever."
1 quotes

🇲🇽Rafael Márquez (boxer)
Sports
b. 1979
"I will fight like a lion to retain my title."
2 quotes
🇺🇸Bob Costas
Sports
b. 1952
"Tony Fernández, who has worn hero's laurels throughout the postseason, including earlier in this seventh game of the World Series—now, cruel as it may seem, perhaps being fitted for goat horns."
10 quotes

🇺🇸Micky Ward
Sports
b. 1965
"I found out Scott is anti-union and I’m a Teamster guy. I found out he’s also against gay marriage, and I say if you love someone, you should have the same rights no matter who you are."
1 quotes

🇺🇸Tom Brown (satirist)
Sports
1922–2011
"To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back."
2 quotes

🇺🇸Salim Stoudamire
Sports
b. 1982
"I'm in better condition . My endurance has gone up, and I haven't gotten tired at all during the whole season. … I don't think you should eat something that had a mother."
1 quotes
🇮🇹Andrea Pirlo
Sports
b. 1979
"Tears are a demonstration of who you are; an undeniable truth."
29 quotes
🇺🇸Cal Ripken
Sports
1981–2001
"I don't know how everyone else feels, but I'm exhausted."
1 quotes
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🇬🇧Ben Chapman (actor)
Sports
b. 1979
1 quotes

🇺🇸Branch Rickey
Sports
1881–1965
"Folks, this here young man deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Not only because he pitched twos, but because he got two bonuses from Branch Rickey."
10 quotes