Sports Quotes · Page 159

Obviously, you want to score every game, but you just have to be patient.

— Amari Cooper

I want to inspire the next generation of athletes, not just figure skaters.

— Scott Moir

It is an individual sport and you don't get many opportunities to overturn dodgy decisions.

— George Groves

Just played a little game with that pedestrian, it's called Hit & Run.

— Nikhil Saluja

Fear gives you your intensity, it gives you your game.

— Chris Eubank Sr

My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.

— Randy Castillo

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

If I hadn't wanted to become a footballer, Dad wouldn't have made me do it.

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

I played without fear. I've done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-year-old, whether it's…

— Eden Hazard

I've been a basketball player for a very long time and I've always watched the game... I love the game of basketball,…

— Kelly Oubre, Jr

On coaching the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers: Nobody likes us. Nobody outside Philadelphia, that is. In fact, the nicest thing people say about…

— Fred Shero

Football itself is a great sport with which we are proud to be associated. We want to be proud to be associated…

— Charles W. Scharf

Think back over the history of any sport. Very often there has been one guy who stood out above the superstars -…

— Tex Schramm

I get enthused by good football because I love this sport. I don't care about which jersey the teams are wearing or…

— Ralph Hasenhuttl

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of…

— Michael Jordan

I think everybody has got to understand that you go into certain games, and they've got all the tools and the weapons…

— Tony Pulis

Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy…

— Charles Saatchi

I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and…

— Brock Yates

My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet,…

— Michael Ian Black

You're not going to tell me that you're going to find a person who's not a very good athlete and he or…

— Jack Nicklaus

I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can…

— Norm MacDonald

You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so…

— Brian Eno

But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of…

— Jessica Maxwell

It's always good to bat at the top, where you get more opportunities, but sometimes crucial 30s and 40s can be very…

— Suresh Raina

We have to be careful not to let our game not be the game we know it should be.

— Paul Ince

We've got to have a radical rethink of the way the sport is funded to help the young players develop.

— John Higgins

If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.

— Michael Phelps

I'm a competitive guy, and I love the competitive nature of video games.

— Gordon Hayward

The ultimate goal of any athlete in any sport is to become a true world champion.

— Thomas Hauser

Buying involves decision-making. It's a performance activity, like sports or acting.

— Mark Goulston

I came to this sport to prove to myself and others that I am this big and loud champion.

— Vasyl Lomachenko

The sport has to be entertaining, it has to make money. CM Punk brings that.

— Frank Mir

I have always believed in myself. As a footballer, it is essential to have that belief.

— Victor Moses

“We have to be able to dominate the game, and make sure that we aren’t dominated ourselves.”

— Guillem Balague

The game is not lost - or won - until the last bell goes.

— John Curtin

Personally, I'm not all that interested in making the show appealing to casual sports fans.

— Jason Whitlock

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

— Elbert Hubbard

It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.

— Chad Harbach

In my opinion, sport teaches valuable lessons in extremely rewarding circumstances.

— Scott Moir

Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.

— Selena