Sport Quotes · Page 6

Sport on TV is so boring.

— Eddie the Eagle

Politics is a blood sport.

— Aneurin Bevan

Business is a team sport.

— Greg Brenneman

I'm paid to play the sport I love.

— Jason McCourty

Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.

— Chris Evert

Sport instils discipline, and it's a distraction.

— Dillian Whyte

I have given my life to the game and to the sport.

— Hope Solo

“The life of this world is but a sport and a pastime.”

— Anonymous

Football is ultimately a young man's sport.

— Jerome Bettis

Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.

— Camilo Villegas

The sport I'm in allows me to use my creativity.

— Tony Ferguson

It's exciting when there is any growth in women's sport.

— Ashleigh Barty

Cricket has driven down the standard of every other sport.

— Milkha Singh

Sport allows people to come together, but politics divides people.

— Francois Hollande

Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!

— George Carlin

Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they’re trying to be a woman in a man’s game.

— Cammi Granato

“People argue between Pele or Maradona. Di Stéfano is the best, much more complete.”

— Pelé

Competitive bodybuilding is a niche sport, but bodybuilding is for everybody.

— Ronnie Coleman

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

— Allyson Felix

It looks like fun and games on the outside, but everyone that has ever been to the top of any sport knows…

— Travis Pastrana

I wasn't the first woman to try to make it in the world of sport, right? There were so many that came…

— Doris Burke

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for…

— Richard Attias

“He was simply the most intelligent football player I ever saw. If I had one player to choose, out of all of…

— Bobby Charlton

I think City is a really good example of how you shift the culture internally. We've had a big culture shift, particularly…

— Karen Bardsley

People tend to box little girls in. They teach them to sit properly and stand quietly and not attract attention. Sports is…

— Tenley Albright

What I want is to leave this sport as champion. I want to be the only featherweight champion. That's when I'll leave…

— Jose Aldo

“Happiness is a state of mental,physical and spiritual well-being. Think pleasantly,engaged sport and read daily to enhance your well-being.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

As a woman in sport media, you have to be smart. You use what you can to your advantage and make sure…

— Michelle Beadle

The thing to me about this sport, all the fans, everyone that watches, everyone that has a career has had a bad…

— Cat Zingano

When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships -…

— Indra Nooyi

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has…

— Lewis Mumford

“Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The…

— Christopher Hitchens

Honestly, I feel like we are a walking protest. The fact that we're women professional athletes says that in and of itself.…

— Megan Rapinoe

Today, if you listen to sports talk radio, they are not talking the right way about most women's sports. Those people will…

— Ted Leonsis

When I was a kid, the women like Mia Hamm and Brandi Chastain were paving the way for female players in the…

— Karen Bardsley

“A great amongst the greats.”

— Michel Platini

Football is a collective sport.

— Pepe

Exploration is the sport of the scientist

— Auguste Piccard

I'm a solo skater; the sport can be lonely.

— Mirai Nagasu

Hockey is not a sport - it's a disease.

— Chico Resch