Ian Rush Quotes

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

In football, surprises are always possible.

This is the NBA, anybody can beat anybody.

Everybody knows that, in football, anything can happen.

There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.

The FA Cup is notoriously unpredictable.

But you can never take anything for granted in the FA Cup, because an upset is always only just around the corner, and I have experienced those too.

How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs?

I've gotten jobs that I think I've done the worst audition I ever did, and I got the job. I've done the best audition I've ever done in my entire life, and I haven't gotten the job.

Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers.

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

Why can't we be Greece in the Euros? Why can't we be Leicester in the Premier League? Tell me why not.

That's the beauty of the fight: Anything can happen.

In the league, anything can happen. Once one team gets momentum, things can change really fast.

That's why everybody loves to tune in and watch these fights, because at any given moment, any given fight, any given fighters, anything can happen. A fighter could win nine out of 10 times, but there's always that one time.

I've won league championships, and I helped pull off a massive NCAA tournament upset - our 15-versus-2 win over Duke in 2012.

Like when I fought Akebono - six foot eight, 490 pounds. Before the fight, everyone's like 'Man, you're crazy. You're out of your mind. How are you going to fight a guy that big, there's no way you can take him down. You cannot punch him out. You're out of your mind.' After the fight, everybody was like 'Oh come on, he's big and fat.' Really?

The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.

When magic happens, it just happens, brother.

The shorter the game is then the bigger the chance of an upset.

At Euro 2004 - my first as a player - Greece won the title. A team nobody thought could win it.