Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.