Sports Quotes

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

Like they say, it ain't over 'til the fat guy swings

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.

Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.

I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards.

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.

I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

Its better to have a rich soul than to be rich.

Little did I know that the sport I loved and the skills I learned would later play a role in my relationship with God.

It is not a bad sport, but there's no place to go.

Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

She wanted an Italian sports car - with the sport still in it.

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.

You guys line up alphabetically by height.

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.

A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is.

Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

Sometimes parents limit the experiences their kids will have, saying they are going to fail; they can't ride a bike or do sports.