Did U Know...

hey huys! this is some stuff i gave to JAM... dunno whether they will be publishing it, but here are aome interesting facts related to different sports... also there are some famous QUOTES by famous sportspersons...

DID U KNOW????

1. The World's First Football Club - Sheffield Football Club - was founded in 1857 by Colonel Nathaniel Cresswick and Major William Priest, two British Army officers.
2. The English League was founded in 1888.
3. The founding clubs were: Accrington (Old Reds), Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Burnley, DerbyCounty, Everton, Notts County, Preston North End, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers.
4. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who played 20 seasons in the NBA, holds the record for most points scored in a career with 38,387.
5. The closest finish for the F1 Championship was in the year 1984, where the difference of points between the 1st and the 2nd driver was just Half point! Niki Lauda won the championship with 72 points and Alain Prost finished second with 71 ½ points...
6. Chess was invented in India.
7. The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after levelling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
8. The start of the 5th Test of England vs South Africa at Kingsmead, Durban in 1931 was delayed by 20 minutes due to the unavailability of the correct size of the bails.
9. Don Bradman`s scores in his first and final Tests were 18, 1 & 0 respectively.
10. The last Olympic gold medals that were made entirely out of gold were awarded in 1912. The gold and silver Olympic medals must be made out of 92.5 percent silver, with the gold medal covered in six grams of gold.

Sports QUOTES:
Ø I don't know what these fellows are doing, but whatever they are doing, they sure are doing it well. - Pete Sampras on watching Lara and Ambrose at Lord's.
Ø I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...hi compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel! -- Don Bradman in reference to Sachin Tendulkar
Ø I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures- Oscar Wilde
Ø The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Ø When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.-- Michael Jordan, Basketball Legend
Ø I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok. -- Shaquille O'Neal, Basketball Player
Ø Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost. --Martina Navratilova, Tennis Legend
Ø Champions keep playing until they get it right.-- Billie Jean King, Pro Tennis Legend
Ø For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream. -- Emmitt Smith, American Football Player
Ø When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.-- Steffi Graf, German Tennis Player
Ø Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.-- Pele
Ø My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.-- Tiger Woods