Sports Quotes

Golf is the crack of sports. If you hit five good shots, you know you can hit six good shots. The next time you hit six good shots, you know you can hit seven.

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

I have been listening to sport and watching sport on the BBC since I was a tiny boy.

We talkin' bout practice?

I'm passionate about my sport and grateful that I get to do it for a living.

I think it's very important, even if you're not in organized sports, but just to be active, to be healthy.

And as long as I'm passionate about the sport, I'm able to do that and I'm happy, then I would love to do another Olympics. I'm just going to see how I'm feeling.

If I wasn't active and involved in different sports and just moving around, I wouldn't have even known that I had the potential to become an Olympian.

So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.

I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.

My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.

With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.

I have been amongst the best players in the world for 8 years. None at that level played as many ties as I did.

This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.

You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good.

I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up.

Everyone wants to win, but I think winners believe they deserve to win. They've made the commitment, they've followed the right path, and they've taken the right steps to be successful.

I started in this sport at 12 years of age and the goals I set was to be among the best and be the world champion.

This sport has given me so much that my hope would be to give back as much as I can for as long as I can.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn't grow with the size of the person - it just forces you to swallow the whole pill.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.

Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.

If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for animals. Even this we have failed to achieve.

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.

Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.

The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.

If someone from Germany or somewhere, who had no idea what baseball was, saw Kruk play, he'd wonder what the beer truck driver was doing playing first base.

It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game.

Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s.

I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.

I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well.

I work out, I play sports, I go to concerts.

For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.

God gives all to those, who get up early.

Like any young person, I do what I want.

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.

Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And some are jerks.

I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.

If you're training in a combat sport, deliciousness takes a backseat.

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me, maybe because I love sports.

It's an individual sport, but collectively everybody shares the same motto that Ironman stands for: anything is possible.

If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.