I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal. Dorothy Hamill
I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant. I didn't like the media attention. Eric Dickerson
I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best. Mary Decker
My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint. Derek Fisher
That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned. Julius Erving
The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players. Jim Courier
We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded. David Cone
We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman. Peggy Fleming
When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete. Herschel Walker
When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense. Brady Anderson
A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time. Billie Jean King
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. Max Eastman
A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard. Cal Ripken Jr
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. Winston churchill
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. Paul Auster
All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me. Dave Winfield
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.Stephen Hawking
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. Earl Wilson