Quotes

Robert Rozenberg 2007

Lance Armstrong

Al Bundy

Mohammed Ali

Divers

Lance Armstrong
It’s [cycling] a sport of self-abuse	Lance Armstong – It’s not about the bike	Wielrennen
Once someone asked me what pleasure I got out of riding my bike for so long. "Pleasure?" I asked. "I don't understand the question. I didn't do it for the pleasure. I did it for the pain.	Lance Armstrong – It’s not about the bike	Wielrennen
Pain is temporary, quitting is forever	Lance Armstong – It’s not about the bike	Wielrennen
There was a second supremely sweet moment of victory. As I made my way through the finish area, I passed the Cofidis team. Assorted members of the organization stood around, the men who I felt had left me for dead in a hospital room. "That was for you," I said as I moved past them."	Lance Armstrong after winning the opening time trial and becoming the leader of the 1999 Tour de France	Wielrennen
This is my body. And I can do whatever I want to it. I can push it. Study it. Tweak it. Listen to it. Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?	Lance Armstrong	Wielrennen
This is not Disneyland, or Hollywood. I'll give you an example: I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.	Lance Armstrong	Wielrennen

Al Bundy
Health people are like dinosaurs. They're not fit to survive	Al bundy	Filosoof
If God had wanted women to play ball, he would've made them men.	Al bundy	Filosoof
if walking is so good for you, then why does my mailman look like Jabba The Hut ?	Al Bundy	Filosoof
It's only a game if you win, if you lose it's a stinking waste of time.	Al bundy	Filosoof
Kelly, it's not that we don't believe you. It's just that we don't believe in love	Al bundy	Filosoof
Let me explain. It's just like an elevator. There's a 2 ton weight limit on those shoes	Al bundy	Filosoof
Milwaukee. That's the town they build around you mother, isn't it, Peg?	Al bundy	Filosoof
Sure selling shoes is fun. But behind the glamour, it's like any other minimum wage slow death.	Al bundy	Filosoof

Mohammed Ali
“What's my name, fool? What's my name?" What Ali kept yelling while winning a 1967 decision against Ernie Terrell, who had insisted on calling him Cassius Clay.	Muhammad Ali	Boksen
Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn't choose it, and I didn't want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name - it means beloved of God - and I insist people use it when speaking to me and of me.	Muhammad Ali	Boksen
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.	Muhammad Ali	Boksen
Don't count the days, make the days count	Muhammed Ali	Boksen
Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee Your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see	Muhammad Ali	Boksen
gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; he isGod	Muhammed Ali	Boksen
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was	Muhammad Ali	Boksen
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest	Muhammad Ali	Boksen
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize	Muhammad Ali	Boksen
I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on	Muhammad Ali	Boksen
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.	Muhammad Ali	Boksen
I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.	Muhammad Ali	Boksen
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up	Muhammad Ali	Boksen
It's not bragging if you can back it up	Muhammad Ali	Boksen
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won	Muhammad Ali	Boksen
Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.	Muhammed Ali	Boksen
Superman don't need no seat belt.	Muhammad Ali in een vliegtuig	Boksen
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights	Muhammad Ali	Boksen
The man who has no imagination has no wings	Muhammad Ali	Boksen
When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble	Muhammad Ali	Boksen

Divers
Luck is the residue of design	Branch Rickey Honkball 1881-1965	Honkball
Problems are the price you pay for progress	Branch Rickey Honkball 1881-1965	Honkball
For four years I was in every court. I lost the desire to be like every other sportsman. But cycling paid and many youngsters have lost faith in justice. I'm suffering with this letter. The world understands that all my colleagues have been humiliated in their hotel rooms with hidden TV cameras, that tried to ruin many families. After that how can you not hurt yourself? I don't know why I stopped myself in these moments of anger if I made mistakes I'd like to know that there is proof, but when my sporting life and above all my private life was violated I lost a lot. I'm in this country and I want to say that "hasta la victoria" is a great thing for an athlete, but it is more difficult having given your heart for the sport with accidents and injuries. But I always got back up. What is left? Just a lot of anger and sadness for the violence of the judicial system. My true story should be an example for other sports. Rules yes, but equal for everybody. There's not a job where you have to give your blood and where the families of your colleagues are woken up during the night. I was always afraid of being spied on at home, in hotels and by TV cameras. I ended up hurting myself to not give up my intimacy, the intimacy of my girlfriend and of other colleagues who also lost, of other families who like me were attacked. Go and see what a cyclist is really like. How many people were involved in my sadness as I tried to make a comeback with my dreams as a man which were muddied by drugs, but after my life as an athlete. If a bit of humanity helps us understand and asks what makes us hope, when you make a real mistake you understand and you fight with your heart. This document is the truth. My hope is that real men or women can read it and defend equal rules in sport for everybody. I'm not a liar, I feel hurt and everybody who believed in me has to speak out.	This is the text of a note written by Italian cyclist Marco Pantani on nine pages of his passport before his death, and read out at his funeral by his friend and former manager Manuela Ronchi. The note appeared to have been written during a recent trip to Cuba. It was written in Italian and translated by Reuters	Wielrennen
Als ik moet kiezen tussen een vrouw of een man als coach dan kies ik voor de vrouw. Het voordeel is dat een vrouw beter hoorbaar is op de kruising. Ze schreeuwen harder.	Bob de Jong	schaatsen
Als je een ezel een pilleke geeft, gaat-ie toch nooit een paardenkoers winnen	Roland Liboton	Veldrijden
Always train & never complain
And on the eighth day God said, "O.K. Murphy. You take over
Bear to live or dare to die	Alexander Pope, Essay on Man	Schrijver
Cycling is like a church - many attend, but few understand.	Jim Burlant	Stand-up comedian
Death is certain, life is not
Die middelen waren bestemd voor mijn zieke hond	Franck Vandenbroucke nadat de Rijkswacht bij hem thuis de stimulerende stoffen epo, clenbuterol en morfine aangetroffen had	Wielrennen
Do it and if it’s the wrong thing to do, don’t do it again, but don’t regret it, don’t have any regrets, When you die, just die	Neal Wood	BMX
Luctor et emergo (ik worstel en kom boven)
Do one thing, every day, that scares you	Mary Schmich Sunscreen speech	Student
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life, the most interesting people I know, didn’t know at twenty-two what to do with their lives, some of the most interesting forty year olds still don’t	Mary Schmich – Sunscreen speech	student
Don’t waste you time on jealousy, the race is long, some times you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind, but in the end it’s only but yourself	Mary Schmich – Sunscreen speech	student
Don’t waste your time or time will waste you
Egotism is the anaesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity	Frank Leahy
Elk nadeel heb z’n voordeel	Johan Cruijff, 1997	Voetbal
Exercise is bunk. If you’re healthy, you don’t need it; if you are sick, you shouldn’t take it	Henry Ford	President VS
For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name He marks - not that you won or lost - But how you played the game	Grantland Rice, 1880-1954	Dichter
Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental	Jim McKenny,	ijshockey
I guess I just have bigger ovaries	Missy Giove	Downhill
I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body	Dave Barry	Commentator
I have something to say, It’s better to burn out, then to fade away	The Kurgan, Highlander I	Film
I really lack the words to compliment myself today	Alberto Tomba	Skier
I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer? We are getting soft... As for me, give me a fixed gear!	Henri Desgrange	Wielrennen
I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.	Michael Ventre L.A. Daily News	Journalist
I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out	Rodney Dangerfield	ijshockey
I’m rather scared to death, than bored to death
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.	Mario Andretti	Formule 1
If you think training is fun, you’re not training hard enough	Sebastian Coe	Lopen
I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all	Mike Tyson	Boksen
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail	Wilfred A. Peterson
In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete.	Yakov Smirnoff	Stand-up comedian
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to other
Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone	John Mellencamp - Jack & Diane	Muziek
Life is pain
Life is the slowest form of suicide	Cease – Frustration	Muziek
Life is what you make it
Making an animal of yourself relieves the pain of being a man	Manciata	Filosoof
Man was born to live, not just to exist	Evel Knievel	Stuntman
Never eat more than you can lift.	Miss Piggy
No guts, no glory
No pain, no gain
Of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most	Ozzy Osbourne	Muziek
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.	Knute Rockne 1888-1931	American Football Noorweegse Coach
Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano men moet een gezonde geest in een gezond lichaam wensen	Juvenal AD 60-130, Satires X 356	Filosof
Pain is French bread
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional
Pain is temporarily, glory is forever
Pain is weakness leaving the body	“join the marines”	Australische advertentie
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors	Frank Gifford	American football coach
Refuse to loose
Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.	Thomas Alva Edison	Wetenschapper
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.	Winston Churchill	President GB
Some men see things as the are and say why, I dream things that never were and say why not	Robert Kennedy on his brothers funeral / George Bernard Shaw: Back to Methuselah	Politiek
Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand	Matt Hoffman
succes is een keuze	Royco cuppasoup	Reclame
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts	Winston Churchill	President GB
That what does not kill us, makes us stronger	Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight Of The Idols	Filosoof
The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew--and live through it	Doug Bradbury	Wielrennen
The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.	Baron de Coubertin, 1908 speech london Olympic games
Saying the word doesn’t make is so
I was born ready
The Only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing	Edmund Burke
The problem with Italian food is that six days later you’re hungry again	Frank Miller, 1991	marathon
The revolution will not be televised
There is a feeling I get, when I look to the west and my spirit is crying for leaving	Led Zeppelin stairway to heaven	Muziek
There is no trying, only doing
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot	Steven Wright	Stand-up comedian
These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.	Charles Barkley	Basketball
This is the world, men are the gas pedals and women are the brakes
thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who would have foretold That the heart grows old ?	W.B. Yeats, 1865-1939	Dichter
Thy shal not weigh more than thy refrigerator
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other	Jack Handey	Boksen
Trainen is een teken van onzekerheid	Jacob Huisman	Skutsje-zeiler
Voordat ik een fout maak, maak ik die fout niet	Johan Cruijff, 1997	Voetbal
We all live in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital	Brad Park	IJshockey
What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog	Bear Bryant	American football Coach
when asked his greatest strengths as a football player : "Speed, strength, and the inability to register pain immediately	Reggie Williams	American Football speler
With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions	Pete Rose	Honkbal
You are never too skinny, too rich are to heavily armed	Ice-T, Deep Blue Sea	Film
You can’t break me, because you didn’t make me	Rubin “Hurricane” Carter	Boksen
You talk the talk, but do you walk the walk
Youth is wasted on the young