Sports Quotes · Page 157

Basketball has changed, and the way the game is played has changed.

— Mike D'Antoni

Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers.

— Mary Pilon

There is no competition. Focus on being you and the rest will take care of itself.

— Anonymous

A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there.

— Dawn Staley

I'm in the boxing game to be a champion. That's why I'm in boxing.

— Chris Arreola

I've played a lot of football in my life. I know the tempo and speed of the game.

— Danny Amendola

I have achieved something in sports but there's nothing like a college degree.

— Hidilyn Diaz

I love being on my bike, but I don't consider that a sport: it's too pleasant.

— John Cooper Clarke

In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up…

— LaMarr Woodley

The game has evolved and we've come so far that I don't think there should be any excuse for girls not to…

— Alex Greenwood

Every country wants to protect its athletes because it's ultimately Germany vs. Spain, America vs. China; sports are an extension of the…

— Bryan Fogel

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

— Dick Gregory

Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.

— Phillip Adams

One of the things I've come to learn over the years is that the fight itself is a sport, but everything around…

— Jon Fitch

You know that when you come to England, there are a lot of players who like to play a more physical game.

— Vincent Janssen

“You are not alone in the struggles of life. Entire cosmos is with you. It evolves through the way you face and…

— Amit Ray

I still get a lot of letters from kids and parents who face different challenges and disabilities. I share some of the…

— Jim Abbott

Every now and then, I get a free ticket from someone, and I look at the price, and it says $800, and…

— Frank Deford

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I've seen the consequences of what can happen when you're unprepared for a fight, or not as prepared as your opponent.I can't…

— Chris Eubank, Jr

Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and…

— Antonio Gates

This is one of the last unique things to do in the business of sports, to return the National Football League to…

— Casey Wasserman

After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I…

— Pete Sampras

There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only…

— Margaret Halsey

You've got to let the game come to you. You can't press.

— Christian McCaffrey

Sports end in a result. And life keeps going. Mine, I hope, is just getting started.

— Mardy Fish

To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.

— Don Meyer

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

— Richard M. Nixon

I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand.

— Judah Friedlander

Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.

— John Kessel

As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.

— Trey Songz

I wasn't fighting in this sport from the beginning for any other reason than being the best.

— Joseph Benavidez

You can tell MMA is a carb sport because it's fast; it's explosive. It's not a fat storage sport.

— Demetrious Johnson

“If You Respect Their Preparation, You never Drop the Baton”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]”

— Michael Lewis

I don't think any game means less than the other ones. You always want to win.

— Hilary Knight

I was one of the ones that created the expansion for the sport.

— Diego Sanchez

If you've got competition for places then you always need to be on top of your game.

— Dominic Calvert-Lewin

I think this sport can change a lot of things. It changed my life.

— Frank Shamrock

I know sport can change the world, and that matters to me.

— Clare Balding