American Quote by Nick Nolte

A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game…

— Tom Seaver

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see…

— Kevin Hart

As an american, you're born aiming so high - boys want to play in the major leagues, girls want to be princesses. We're cultivating…

— Steven Conrad

I was a big kid who never played any organized sports. You played a lot of sports in the streets and I excelled at…

— Howie Long

I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played…

— Ira Glass

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone…

— Ted Williams

All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.

— Sri Chinmoy

It is better to lose in the Olympics than to win in Little League.

— Anonymous

It's that deep-seeded societal gender norm that women, for some reason, aren't elite athletes, when we are. We really are. I think we fight…

— Becky Sauerbrunn

I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

— Matt Long

Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.

— Twyla Tharp

Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've got to practise harder, and they've got to do something…

— Beth Brooke