Sports Quotes · Page 181

Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

— Lord Byron

Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.

— Lionel Messi

I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring.

— Randy Orton

Tiger's redefined golf as a sport and made it athletic.

— John Smoltz

I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.

— Simone Biles

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

— Anna Chlumsky

It's difficult to compete against a player that's also refereeing the game.

— Ron Williams

Football is important, but it is never more important than life.

— Nemanja Vidic

Obviously stakes and pressure have increased from high school to college to the NFL, but at the end of it, it's still…

— George Kittle

Anybody who follows me on Twitter or Facebook knows that I'm super into fantasy sports. I like to make money on my…

— Slaine

It's a game of adjustments, I would say, fighting. You learn lessons from your previous fight and you make adjustments.

— Dan Hooker

As someone that was a good ambassador of a growing sport, that always wanted to fight the best fighters and always gave…

— Fedor Emelianenko

Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels…

— Conor McGregor

Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a…

— William Finnegan

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what…

— Lee Westwood

I'm in this sport for a long time and I'm going to continue to fight with my whole heart and put on…

— Joseph Benavidez

I can push myself and you can push yourself, but competing, we push ourselves a little farther and we bring out our…

— Po Bronson

I had talked for years about doing a restaurant with Rocky Dudum, who's been my friend since I first came to San…

— Willie McCovey

It's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are…

— Christopher Judge

I believe that athletes have one of the biggest platforms to influence and if their followers don't like what they believe in,…

— Weston McKennie

Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be…

— Terry Bradshaw

I think as a 20-year-old you expect life to always be easy. You get given a good hand and the chance to…

— Jenson Button

As a young kid, you never really understand what it takes to be a footballer: what it's like after you've won or…

— Nikita Parris

I love sport as long as its kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.

— David Icke

I was a very good athlete: actually professional in the sport of handball.

— Cris Cyborg

I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

— Pete Rose

“Our work activities are perhaps most interesting when the element of competition is present.”

— Ralph Alfred Habas

As Olympic athletes, we have a responsibility to be positive role models to today's youth.

— Elana Meyers

I'm just playing my game and trying to help my team win. Whatever happens, happens.

— Aaron Donald

We've all been there as players, had terrible games. But you get through it by fighting and competing.

— Owen Hargreaves

Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.

— Omar N. Bradley

I feel like an EP is for practice and an album is the game.

— Saweetie

Emotions come and go quickly in sports, so we need to give fans what they want.

— Michael G. Rubin

When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

— Steve Young

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

— Max Euwe

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

— Lewis H. Lapham

I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.

— Tom Tolbert

When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.

— Magic Johnson

When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.

— Jose Bergamin