Sporting Greatness Quotes

Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

You are never going to top boxing at Wembley stadium.

I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

I loved [Real Madrid]. It was a real experience, playing with a great team. One of the first questions I'm often asked is 'What was Madrid like?' It's got that mystique about it. It's a magical place and a magical team, and everything about it is great.

I don't think there is any 16-year-old who is going to embark on the sort of career that Sachin Tendulkar has had and walk away from the game at 40 with such great achievements. He's the Muhammad Ali and the Michael Jordan of cricket.

People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.

I'm a fan of how Zinedine Zidane ended his career, right after a World Cup.

Players like Alastair Cook do not come around very often. To play for so long and achieve so much says everything about his fitness, concentration, discipline and skill.

To know that you will be in the International Sports Hall of Fame and that people for hundreds of years will know who you are and what you did, it means everything.

This is the best team sport ever created.

Just being with some of the best athletes in the world is a marvelous experience.

God gave Davie Cooper a talent. He would not be disappointed with how it was used

As far as I am concerned, Donnarumma is one of the most important goalkeepers in the world.

The ultimate goal of any athlete in any sport is to become a true world champion.

It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.

When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.

I want to be remembered for the good things - for winning the Champions League, for winning five of the first six trophies at Barcelona. I could win another Champions League and I want to go on making history. It goes back to the feeling of more responsibility at Liverpool. I felt I had to suffer more to not be criticised but here the responsibility falls on others too and I can enjoy it more.