Sports Quotes

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha

Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.

I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.

Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be.

I think women's soccer is so important. Soccer is the biggest sport for little girls. It's so important for us to give these girls a dream and something they can aspire to be.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

When you stand on the victory stand, you must be able to ask yourself: 'Did I win this medal?'

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.

I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

Rest if you must, but never quit.

Sports like baseball, basketball, and hockey develop muscles. That's why Americans have the strongest eyes in the world.

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.

It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.

It was probably the biggest accomplishment of my life.

Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad.

Oh yeah, I'm definitely a tomboy! I love sports, hate dresses, don't own a single pair of high-heels, am not a fan of makeup, and I'm not afraid to get messy!

I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.

My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.

So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair.

I recognize that losing is a part of growth in this sport and it's a positive thing in the long run.

I was a little different. I still say Im a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.

The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.

It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams... This is success!

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everythings OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.