Sports Quotes · Page 153

We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.

— Alberto Salazar

If you think there is such a thing as an unimportant game, just try losing one.

— Gene Stallings

I don't want to just be a sports guy and that's it - I need to give back.

— Leon Edwards

Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.

— Michael Jordan

If a footballer goes on the pitch with the right mentality, he will perform well.

— Alexis Sanchez

Every game, somebody is asking me where I got my shoes.

— P. J. Tucker

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

— Tom Peters

I just think I respect the game and care for the game so much.

— Frank Gore

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the…

— Thomas Jefferson

I always find competition in each and every thing I do, and it will bring competition - no doubt about it.

— Peyton Hillis

If we did get a divorce, the only way my husband would find out about it is if they announced it on…

— Joyce Brothers

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give…

— Bernhard Langer

My dad wanted to have a son, and then he ended up with my sister and I, so from the time we…

— Devon Windsor

All coaches say, 'We want to control the game. We want the ball. Blah, blah, blah, blah,' but it's impossible to have…

— Nuno Espirito Santo

All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.

— Peter O'Toole

Pushing through when times get difficult, perseverance. It's an important trait to have as an athlete, and as a human being in…

— Cooper Kupp

Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who…

— Michael Ellsberg

My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as…

— Anthony Hopkins

Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money…

— John Piper

Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn't do the normal things that the boys of my…

— Mario Balotelli

I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

People in tennis, they've been in a certain bubble for so long they don't even know who they are, because obviously it's…

— Frances Tiafoe

Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world's attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global…

— Eduardo Paes

I know when I've been surfing I've got a sense of level of calmness to me, and when I hit the ocean,…

— Nick Carroll

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

— Tim Burton

Anymore, I don't just not watch sports; I dislike them in a very visceral way.

— Cord Jefferson

Every game is huge and every game will count when it's all said and done.

— Dabo Swinney

Trash talk is trash talk. You get that in every sport.

— Trent Williams

It's just in your nature when you're an athlete to be competitive in everything.

— Tecia Torres

I love the game of basketball. I want to get better, I want to improve.

— Julius Randle

“I like to play this game. I made it up myself, but I play it only once a year.”

— Sandra Cunha

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.

— David Millar

I am like the huge percentage of Indians who follow majorly cricket when it comes to sports.

— Nikita Dutta

What I've learned about athletes is they're very into other athletes.

— Jessica Pegula

The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.

— Zora Neale Hurston

My job is to improve the performance of the team game by game.

— Luis Enrique

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Playing in a big tournament is one of the biggest things for a professional footballer.

— Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

Everything is social media nowadays, everything is sports and entertainment.

— Sonya Deville

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

— Carl Lewis