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Thinkers
60 foundHeidi Klum
1973
56 quotes
Paul Scholes
1974
72 quotes
Babe Ruth
1895 – 1948
69 quotes
Roger Federer
1981
68 quotes
Phil Brown (footballer)
1916 – 2006
64 quotes
Ian Darke
1950
62 quotes

Sania Mirza
1986
58 quotes
TotalBiscuit
1984 – 2018
54 quotes
Phil Brooks
1901 – 1963
53 quotes
José Mourinho
1963
49 quotes
Thiago Silva
1984
48 quotes

David Icke
1952
44 quotes
Anatoliy Tymoshchuk
1979
34 quotes
Andrea Pirlo
1979
29 quotes
Jesse Owens
1913 – 1980
27 quotes
Larry Bird
1956 – 2025
26 quotes
Zinedine Zidane
1972
24 quotes
Coco Chanel
1883 – 1971
24 quotes

Daniel Suarez
1964
23 quotes
Wilt Chamberlain
1936 – 1999
23 quotes
Mike Lange
1948 – 2025
22 quotes

Dan Patrick
1956
21 quotes
Nile Kinnick
1918 – 1943
21 quotes
Steve McManaman
1972
21 quotes
James Bryce
1838 – 1922
20 quotes
Alessandro Del Piero
1974
20 quotes
Jack Buck
1924 – 2002
19 quotes
Benjamin Spock
1903 – 1998
19 quotes
John Wooden
1910 – 2010
19 quotes
Ben Dirs
18 quotes
Michael Jordan
1963
17 quotes
Ricky Hatton
1978 – 2025
17 quotes
Jack Gibson
1929 – 2008
17 quotes
Andrew Zimbalist
1947
17 quotes
Jim Ross
1952
16 quotes
Sugar Ray Robinson
1921 – 1989
15 quotes

Casey Stengel
1890 – 1975
15 quotes

Dhyan Chand
1905 – 1979
15 quotes
Jimmy Magee
1935 – 2017
14 quotes

Charles Barkley
1963
14 quotes
Murray Walker
1923 – 2021
14 quotes
Zlatan Ibrahimović
1981
13 quotes
Joe Buck
1969
13 quotes
Tiger Woods
1975
12 quotes

Jürgen Klopp
1967
12 quotes
Ferenc Puskás
1927 – 2006
12 quotes

Howard Cosell
1918 – 1995
12 quotes
Rafael Nadal
1986
12 quotes
Marisa Miller
1978
12 quotes
Bode Miller
1977
11 quotes
Milkha Singh
1932
11 quotes
Bryant Gumbel
1948
11 quotes
Michel Bréal
1832 – 1915
11 quotes
Gary Ross
1956
11 quotes
Lennox Lewis
1965
11 quotes
Alfredo Di Stéfano
1926 – 2014
10 quotes
Harry Harlow
1893
10 quotes
David Davis
1875 – 1954
10 quotes
Tessa Virtue
1989
10 quotes
Bob Costas
1952
10 quotes
Quotes
60 found"“Whoever the next coach has amazing players to choose from, and it’s about putting them in a position to be successful.”"
"A man who works for another is not going to be paid any more than he is worth; you can bet on that. A man ought to get what he can earn. Don't make any difference whether it's running a farm, running …"
"There is one hit of mine which will not stay in the official records, but which I believe to be the longest clout ever made off a major league pitcher. At least some of the veteran sport writers told …"
"You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win."
"I observe you have thought proper to insert the last number of the Philosophical Magazine your opinion that my attempts at the safety tubes and apertures were borrowed from what I have heard of Sir Hu…"
"I remember one season in Detroit, we all took a lot of vitamins. I don't think we played any better, but three of our wives got pregnant."
"There comes a time at least once in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them."
"I guess I should have written two books of my life, one for the adults and another for the kids."
"Tommy Hawkins, Baylor's teammate for six seasons and opponent for four declared to the San Francisco Examiner that "ound for pound, no one was ever as great as Elgin Baylor." He also said, "Elgin cert…"
"When thou was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing."
"The best justification for the despotic system described is to be found in the administration of British India. That administration is no doubt in some respects imperfect. ... But it is incomparably b…"
"I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun."
"He had said from the first that the war had been a hideous blunder, and he had supported that opinion in the House of Commons. ... Stop the farm-burning; it had been a great mistake and was against Br…"
"We used to think of cow's milk as a nearly perfect food. However, over the past several years, researchers have found new information that has caused many of us to change our opinion. This has provoke…"