Sports Quotes

Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

I wish to become the greatest player in the world. I want to uphold the honor of India, the USA and of my coach and make basketball a prominent sport in India.

I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going, I cannot be stopped, I just keep going.

I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.

Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.

Sometimes sports can provide a medicine that no doctor can provide.

A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

People are very protective of their cell phones, how it's used, where it's used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country.

I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey.

I hate sports. My reaction to the ball is this [kicks soccer ball] Don't kick it back to me. I don't wanna see it again.

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

The difference between being a winner and being a loser is how you pick yourself up again, especially when you're down for the third or fourth or twentieth time!

Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.

To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

Since baseball is my favorite sport, it's easy to go out and do what I do.

One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.

I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what its like to really adore something.

All I know is I have a job here as long as I win.

Excuses are like rear ends. Everybody has one and they stink.

Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.

Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame

It is a responsibility to be who you are and not let this sport [racing] change you and not let the good runs and success or the bad runs change you. You've got to be the same person all the time.

Confidence is everything. If you start second guessing yourself, you're bound to run into more bad outings

I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.

I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.

When I was young, I didn't really think about anything other than sports.

It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.

In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

I miss all the shots I don't take.

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it.

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.

I played sports, so I understood quickly I shouldn't be eating fast food because it was slowing me down, making me feel lousy and lazy, and my instincts were not working as they should.

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

We were over-whelming underdogs.

I love the sport and being competitive.

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.

Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.