Sports Quotes

Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value that is essential to sport.

That's what I think people sense when they get hooked by surfing - hooked by their relationship with the ocean. All of a sudden, they're part of something that's bigger than them.

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

Some guys need to see things on a grease board, ... I like when you can see it in your mind. And that's what Marvin does, too. He visualizes. He sees things in his mind so well.

I feel one of the most significant honors a player can have in his sport is to have his number retired. Certainly for me to have that at Tennessee, it's with great pride.

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this.

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

Professional competitions are overrated.

When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

All sports are time control demonstrations.

I never did any sports at school. It wasn't until I moved to America, to New York, when I was about 20 that I actually thought that if I wanted to be an actress I might have to start working out.

You can accomplish so much with a strong will. Just do your best, no matter what. Don't let negative thoughts creep in. Don't talk yourself out of anything.

There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.

Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport.

All I'm asking for is what I want.

Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

When four or more men get together, they talk about sports.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.

When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.

They should have focused more on me.

Love, you mock us for your sport.

All I can say is practice, you never know what you might do.

I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late.

To be a good sports journalist takes many things, but the main thing it takes is the ability to listen and follow your nose - see something, sense something and follow it.

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.

I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped.

Football is a contact sport and there's a lot that goes into it. But I have committed myself for a long time to doing it, and because I love doing it so much I want to make that commitment.

In sports you often become part of something greater than yourself.

The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths.

Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.

America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.

Together we knew that we could have success.

He started pushing to make birdies and you don't do that when you're down.

Winning isn't everything, but striving to win is.

Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.

I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.

Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.

If you don't think like a winner, you're not going to be a winner.

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.