When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast. Roger Clemens
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game. Michael Jordan
When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration. Helen Wills Moody
When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something. Dick Butkus
When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible. Claudio Reyna
When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball. Carmelo Anthony
When I was a little girl in Savannah playing, there were never enough hours in the day or holes on the golf course. I just loved the game so much. Hollis Stacy
When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it. Willie Mays
When I was young, it was fun being in the locker room and shagging balls in the outfield in spring training. But I couldn't keep my attention on the games for more than 30 minutes. I would sit there with my Game Boy the whole game. Shane Larkin
When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why. Lisa Leslie
When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships. Earl Monroe
When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball. Cal Ripken Jr
When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things. Oscar Robertson
When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don't distract you, that means you're focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over. Robert Griffin iii
When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand. Pete Rose
When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years. Pete Sampras