Audrey Meadows Quotes

When you're not at the top of your game and you feel like the other team is laughing and embarrassing you by doing certain things, it's time to retaliate.

'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

It was tough for me not to play, but it was cool. But it was tough because I'm a competitor, and I like to be out there with my guys. That's all it's about for me.

I've always said throwing a club shows you care.

There are guys that you look at and you want to really bowl at them or bat against them, certain guys who really get your juices flowing.

I've been in rivalries. Utah-BYU. Bowling Green-Toledo. Florida, we had three: Florida State, Tennessee and Georgia. You make them personal, but they're not. I didn't grow up disliking Georgia.

Some of the technicals I deserved. Cussing at the officials or throwing something. But some of them I didn't deserve.

As a competitive athlete, you always want to come out on top and give your best work. So whether it's my sister or any other opponent, I'm competitive.

People would really hate playing against me if I could touch them.

I was getting sick of losing and watching other players winning all the titles on TV.

There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.

I don't feel that Shaunae Miller cheated me because she didn't break any rules or anything like that, but I do feel like it's a very difficult way to lose. Having worked so hard and I know that that was such a close race, it just kind of made it even harder to deal with defeat just because of how it was done. But I don't think that she had any ill intention by it or did it on purpose. I think it just kind of happened.

Nobody makes me bleed my own blood - nobody!

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

If you look at revenge we are still winning three one you know, so I don't think it is a question of revenge, is a question of a personal thing

I'm looking forward to playing against Sidney Crosby as much as I am looking forward to playing against all of the other players in the NHL. And there is no rivalry.

I was very disappointed (at the U.S. Open), and I went out there and I worked really hard.

I want to run every race with a big heart.

I'll just have to get it against my favorite team.

I'm not fast. But there are a lot of guys that are a hell of a lot slower than I am. Somebody wants to do a pay-per-view race between me and [Tom] Brady, sign me up.

His frustration running very high, he takes it out on the ones he loves because it's safe.

If the roles were reversed, I would be saying the same thing. As a competitor, you're tired of the same guy winning. I guess I understand where they're coming from and what they're saying ... I don't necessarily agree with it. I think it would be great for someone to win five straight.

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything.

I think we have to find somebody out there to beat New England besides us, and I think that would help. Anybody out there that wants to sign up for it? Are you good enough as a team to beat the New England Patriots? Forget about us, are you good enough to go out and beat the New England Patriots? I'm challenging the league.