Sports Quotes · Page 182

When we were small and we were taught how to play the game, we were taught that you always play to win.

— Alessandro Nesta

I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.

— Alan Page

I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense.

— H. L. Mencken

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

— Jim Lehrer

You have to know when to stop in this sport. It's very hard.

— Royce Gracie

For us players, we just go into each game trying to win it and see where it takes us.

— Harry Maguire

My mom was a professional tennis player. She was the one who made tennis in Greece an actual sport.

— Maria Sakkari

Obviously at the end of the day it's an individual sport.

— Jack Sock

I love sports. I play golf now, which is relatively new for me. I only took it up about five years ago.…

— Condoleezza Rice

When I was in school, I would participate in almost every possible competition. I also went on to represent my school and…

— Neeti Mohan

Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology.…

— Thomas Boswell

All sports have a zone, but ours is at 95 mph. You can feel the speed; you can feel the wind. It's…

— Elana Meyers

I always knew and my parents always knew I was destined for greatness. I didn't know what sport it was going to…

— Tony Ferguson

When I started competing at X Games, there was so much chaos that often me and my girlfriends would go into the…

— Jamie Anderson

When you're in the game, you have an active control over what happens every single play. You know what's going wrong, what…

— Jason Kelce

I've trained since I started walking, I've played sports, I've competed. I've learned how to win, even if I haven't done it…

— Gary Woodland

It is important to us to understand and discuss a "vision" with both leagues and then sponsor the league that best matches…

— John Robinson

In Lake Placid we have Bible studies and it's awesome to be able to share your struggles as an athlete and as…

— Elana Meyers

Football is one of those games that definitely relates to life in a lot of ways. Everything can be going good, and…

— Torrey Smith

“And I played football so I knocked a few heads around there, but nothing out of the ordinary. I played baseball too…

— C.C. Gibbs

Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The 2006 event logo combines the twin spires of Churchill Downs, one of the great signature elements in sports, with the greatest…

— Damon Thayer

I suppose the "dilemma" might come up if I see a black athlete from the U.S. squaring off against a white Canadian…

— George Elliott Clarke

It's an incredible feeling, 110,000 people energy at that level. What I realized from watching the first day of competition was that…

— Gabe Jennings

Healthy competition is very important in any industry. It keeps you on your toes and helps you grow.

— Javed Ali

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

— Plautus

I don't really think of myself as the sporty type. But I'll have a go at anything.

— Shaun Evans

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

— Vince Lombardi

I've been pioneering for this sport since before there was weight classes and gloves.

— Frank Shamrock

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

— Alastair Campbell

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

— Joe Rogan

I was introduced to the game by my father, Tommy, when I was 11.

— Jimmy White

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

— Anthony Storr

“Strategic Thinking deals with discovering novel, rewriting the rules of the competitive game.”

— Pearl Zhu

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

— Albert Einstein

This is a business. I'm a professional athlete. This isn't, 'poke somebody and start a street fight.'

— Dustin Poirier

A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

— Jim Valvano

Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.

— Pele

I'm over your lies, I'm over your games, I'm over you asking, when you KNOW I'm not okay.

— Anonymous

I've always craved winning. It's just easier in sports because there's a scoreboard.

— Sam Hunt