Sport Quotes · Page 18

In my country passion with sport, it is inside us.

— Alessandro Nesta

Reading. That was the sport I was good at.

— George R. R. Martin

“Female players lose sight of the game.”

— Habeeb Akande

We do a team sport. Individually, you're worthless!

— Raphael Varane

Fashion is always going to be important in every sport.

— Sam Kerr

In no other sport must the spectator move.

— John Updike

I encourage girls to play sports and play hard.

— Lisa Leslie

I am a sport. And I don't have a chip on my shoulder.

— Lady Colin Campbell

“The most complete footballer in the history of the game.”

— Eusébio

Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.

— J. R. Martinez

“To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

I genuinely love this sport and most of the guys who compete in it.

— Dana White

Football is a team sport and I'd rather place the team above my personal desires.

— Kelechi Iheanacho

The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.

— George Herbert

I'm not my sport, and I know I'm not going to run forever.

— Justin Gatlin

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

— Zara Phillips

I guess it is by studying professional athletes that scientists have come to the conclusion that brain is not a muscle

— Juju

I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha…

— Frank Gehry

In the sport itself it's fine, but online I have had constant sexist comments saying women are not as good as men.

— Fallon Sherrock

Football is not a sport populated by honest people. You can't tell the truth or be up front with people. It's a…

— Fernando Torres

Sport is made to be live. You can't watch something three hours later already knowing the results; it's not the same experience.

— Scott Coker

If you're on the top for your sport or 10 years it's going to seem like you've had more knock-backs than someone…

— Mark Cavendish

It's that deep-seeded societal gender norm that women, for some reason, aren't elite athletes, when we are. We really are. I think…

— Becky Sauerbrunn

The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of…

— Timothy Shriver

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“...nothing that crawls the earth is for my sport.”

— James Fenimore Cooper

I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'

— Tommy Lasorda

I just love the sport, love the game.

— Jill Ellis

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

— Anatoly Karpov

I hope others take as much pride in the sport as I do.

— Johnny Damon

This is just sport for me, nothing more than that.

— Yair Rodriguez

You can't overlook anybody in this sport.

— Adrien Broner

You can call anything a sport if you want.

— Joe Garagiola

I've got to stand up for the sport.

— Shaun White

When women play men, it brings out our better game.

— Fallon Sherrock

Football is the biggest sport in the world.

— Kalvin Phillips

Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.

— Katherine Dunn

This sport can be very unforgiving.

— Alexander Volkanovski

“It's because you absolutely love the sport.”

— Nastia Liukin

Aussies, they like their sport.

— Ajla Tomljanovic