Sports Quotes · Page 171

I've given many lessons in many sports over the years to many different people.

— Martina Navratilova

Football at it's best is a game of beauty and intelligence.

— Ron Greenwood

My exercise regime is a mix of gymming, marital arts, sports, etc.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

“You shouldn’t try to play games with me because I’m not a player, I’m the coach.” ~ Cane”

— Adriana Locke

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

— George Leonard

I come from a sports background and the spirit was always alive to strive for more, and better.

— Angad Bedi

I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him

— Hansie Cronje

Everywhere you look these days you see Carolina athletes.

— Lorrie Fair

I'm not really too big of a sports fan. Everything I watch is MMA, you know, great fights. But other sports, not…

— Cain Velasquez

I had kind of left college. I wanted to study to be a sports teacher, but I had that little inner voice…

— Alesha Dixon

I've been to fights, and I've seen them on television, but no, I would not call myself a fan of the sport,…

— Kim Basinger

I and Alex Salmond are not in competition - we are on the same side; we are on the same team, working…

— Nicola Sturgeon

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

We all love this sport. That's why I will work hard to develop football technically in the way that our sport will…

— Marco van Basten

In wheelchair sports, people thought athletes with disabilities were courageous and inspirational. They never give them credit for simply being competitive.

— Jean Driscoll

I think that is football, sometimes you have games where you are not at your best and then the next game you…

— Martin Odegaard

That's the best part and why you play the game - to get to the playoffs and to get to those big…

— Nikola Vucevic

As an athlete and as a woman, I get my confidence from playing sports because it shifts your focus from what your…

— Venus Williams

A lot of people think that you have to specialize in one sport from an early age in order to turn pro.…

— Pat LaFontaine

I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken…

— Shawn Johnson

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

With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak…

— Harvey Fierstein

It's been one of those things where anybody that's played a sport at the professional level, there's always a lot of challenges.…

— Tim Hudson

Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it…

— Jonathan Gottschall

Had I not become a footballer, I think I would have been a virgin.

— Peter Crouch

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

— Dick Schaap

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.

— Berti Vogts

Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

— George Foreman

“Who needs sports stardom when you can shoot fireballs from your fingertips?”

— Ethan Gilsdorf

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

— William H. Gass

When I finish my career as a player I'd like to stay in contact with the sports world.

— Rodri

If you're winning games of football and you're playing well, why would you change?

— Rob Page

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

— Lord Byron

I always thought I would make it as a professional athlete but I thought it would be playing soccer.

— Cub Swanson

Golf is a weird sport and you never know what's around the corner.

— Shane Lowry

It's always fun to be a part of those games where you're playing a division rival.

— Justin Tucker

We're not above a Game 7. We're not above competition.

— Erik Spoelstra

“When is a game not a game? When the game is afoot.”

— Evelyn Cullet

I don't think I have whatever that thing is that makes some athletes bad with money.

— Iman Shumpert

Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success.

— Jim Harbaugh