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Heidi Klum
🇩🇪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
🇬🇧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
🇵🇹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
🇺🇸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
🇦🇷Lionel Messi
Sports
b. 1987
"Here he is again ... here he is again .. that's astonishing, absolutely world-class!"
10 quotes
LeBron James
🇺🇸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
🇺🇸Mike Tomlin
Sports
b. 1972
"More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic."
5 quotes
Brendan Brazier
🇨🇦Brendan Brazier
Sports
b. 1975
4 quotes
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
🇺🇸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
🇪🇸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
🇺🇸Joe Buck
Sports
b. 1969
"Keenum steps into it. Pass is.... CAUGHT! DIGGS! SIDELINE! TOUCHDOWN! UNBELIEVABLE! VIKINGS WIN IT!"
13 quotes
Sugar Ray Robinson
🇺🇸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
Michael Jordan
Sports
b. 1963
"Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life."
17 quotes
Tiger Woods
🇺🇸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
🇦🇺Shane Warne
Sports
1969–2022
"I don't like him and I'm not in a club of one."
3 quotes
Wilt Chamberlain
🇺🇸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
🇺🇸Anna Kournikova
Sports
b. 1981
"Boyfriends have to understad my needs. I shower four times a day."
1 quotes
Jürgen Klopp
🇩🇪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
🇺🇸Bill Rodgers
Sports
b. 1947
"No one who works 40 hours a week will beat me in a marathon."
1 quotes
Siân Berry
🇬🇧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
🇬🇧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
🇺🇸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
🇬🇧Chris Kamara
Sports
b. 1957
3 quotes
🇨🇳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
🇺🇸Apolo Anton Ohno
Sports
b. 1982
"I always end up in the bathroom, doing his hair."
3 quotes
Charles Barkley
🇺🇸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
🇺🇸Danica Patrick
Sports
b. 1982
1 quotes
🇺🇸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
🇺🇸Jimmy Magee
Sports
1935–2017
"And there it is, the international symbol of peace – the pigeon!"
14 quotes
🇬🇧James Bryce
Sports
1838–1922
"Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by James Bryce"
20 quotes
Don Tregonning
🇦🇺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)
🇲🇽Rafael Márquez (boxer)
Sports
b. 1979
"I will fight like a lion to retain my title."
2 quotes
Bob Costas
🇺🇸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
🇺🇸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)
🇺🇸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
🇺🇸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
🇮🇹Andrea Pirlo
Sports
b. 1979
"Tears are a demonstration of who you are; an undeniable truth."
29 quotes
Cal Ripken
🇺🇸Cal Ripken
Sports
1981–2001
"I don't know how everyone else feels, but I'm exhausted."
1 quotes
🇬🇧Ben Chapman (actor)
Sports
b. 1979
1 quotes
Branch Rickey
🇺🇸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