Sports Quotes

The majority of people pull for the underdog. Heck, even your friends don't like you to be too successful. We've lost enough over the years for me to maintain my friendships.

There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.

NASCAR racing provides more brand awareness and interest than any of the other major sports. The opportunities to build business-to-business relationships within the racing community are endless.

Hockey's my favorite sport.

I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.

My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, camping.

Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.

Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Act as though it were impossible to fail.

I've had to overcome a lot of diversity.

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.

I don't want to prove to anyone or prove to myself. I'd rather just enjoy and show myself that I am capable of doing it and actually going through the process.

I could not have done anymore, I had pushed myself to a limit that I had never touched before and that's definitely going to change you - than going out and doing what you do in practice every day.

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.

I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.

Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.

Every golfer has a little monster in him. It's just that type of sport.

There are days when I can hear men tying their shoe laces in the gallery.

To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.

As I remember it, the bases were loaded.

If you hate your job, don't worry, you won't have it for long.

The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.

Reading. That was the sport I was good at.

Sports is the toy department of life.

If you cut corners you just keep on going in circles.

I look forward to another good year next year. It would be nice to win, too.

Sports is good for health and for children, it gives them manhood, courage, teaches them team work and coordination. Sports is something that is so crucial, it makes everything.

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.

Having loved sport my whole life, competing in a Paralympics would be a dream come true.

The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their lives in trying to dodge it.

Two things help me be a winner. One is I try to stay on an even keel. I don't get too high or too low. Two is I do a lot of visualization. I never see a bad pitch. I always see a good one.

If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience

But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.

The one thing that has gotten worse for sports media is access. We hardly get to see, talk to and most of all get to know the players and coaches anymore.

I don't think you ever will yourself to win. I think you prepare yourself the best you can, get yourself in the best mindset you can get in, and go after it.

We know the principles of coaching. The art is knowing when to apply them.

It only hurt once, from beginning to end.

Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.

No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.

Whitney Houston rear-ended a city bus with her sports car, but no one was hurt. She said she didn't know what happened. One minute she was concentrating on the big white line, and the next, boom!

In wheelchair sports, people thought athletes with disabilities were courageous and inspirational. They never give them credit for simply being competitive.

Fantasy football is actually an amazing American pastime, because it takes the ultimate team sport, NFL and football, and turns it into the quest for individual achievement.

I don't like injustice. We're living in a time where, whether it's the Internet or tabloids, being sh-tty has become a sport. We're just grown-up bullies.

Drinking is not a spectator sport.

Experience is invaluable. I can't express enough how much experience in this sport has helped me as a driver.

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.