When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous. Amanda Beard
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman. Billie Jean King
When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you. Johnny Weir
When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man. Shaquille ONeal
When you go out on a football field, you are responsible for taking care of yourself. The more rules you get, the less players truly take care of themselves.Jim Brown
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity. Reggie Jackson
When you take a year off from football, you come back for all the enjoyable moments. When you're not playing, you miss out on all the highs, but you also miss these disappointments. But I would rather be in the arena to be excited or be disappointed than not have a chance at all. That's football. That's why everybody plays it. Peyton Manning
When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation. Justin Cronin
When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I'll probably have to be on it the rest of my life.Terry Bradshaw
When you're in that upper echelon in wrestling, any movie you take is gonna be a pay cut. If you're gone for three months and they pay you 150 grand, you're getting killed. Kevin Nash
Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble. Pete Sampras
Whether I moved people to throw punches or cry, I did that through my art and what I do. I would never take that experience away to race against a speedometer. Or play on a team. Johnny Weir
You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins. Annie Dillard
You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team. Alonzo Mourning
You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system. Lawrence Taylor
You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing. Greg Lemond