Sports Quotes · Page 196

Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

— Hannah Whitall Smith

We'll do anything it takes to win a basketball game.

— Kyle Lowry

I've studied the game in every different aspect that I can.

— Masai Ujiri

“If you are not fully in the game you are playing, however, you are not truly playing it.”

— J.M. Coetzee

The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

— John Kessel

There is nothing less important in life than the score after one game of a two out of three game match.

— John Kessel

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

— John Hodgman

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

— Mary Lou Retton

We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It's part of the game,…

— Ben Hannant

I stubbornly chose the most difficult sport for myself. When I reached the summit, I felt like screaming at the top of…

— Arunima Sinha

I used to practice at the hockey ground on synthetic surface while I was in the sports hostel, so Test cricket is…

— Suresh Raina

In the end, for me, football is still a game. Even if you are a professional, you need to have fun when…

— Kevin De Bruyne

You want to try to play the game in a really good positive way, not just on the field but off the…

— Israel Folau

Playing at a club like Chelsea and being given the opportunity to play with the world-class players that we have means you…

— Gary Cahill

The ultimate sports figure. The ultimate competitor. Great person. I consider him my friend. I wouldn't be that good if I was…

— Toni Kukoc

It's cool because here everybody has the same goal. We're all competing for our countries. We're all coming down here to do…

— Michelle Carter

He does a great job of it and keeps the sport entertaining and even my mom loves to listen to Joe Rogan…

— Shawn Tompkins

I have to keep myself in check when I go to the kids' sports events. I sit waaay in the back. I…

— Jack Nicholson

I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills.…

— Joey Cheek

My parents were both very frugal, and I think they're responsible for my attitude of always looking for good value, especially in…

— James Holzhauer

We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing…

— Boris Johnson

I don't think that humankind is worthy of trust when we can't let go of war, draw borders between neighboring countries, seek…

— Yoko Taro

'Run' is exciting, about family secrets, the mystery surrounding them and the outdoor sport of parkour. The story itself is full of…

— Kelsey Chow

One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing…

— Mary Pilon

I wanted to be a sports broadcaster like Stephen A. Smith.

— Polo G

I was never the best athlete, but I knew how to be coached and I knew how to work hard at it.

— Jake Hager

Game management is very important. Realizing the situation of a match.

— Aaron Mooy

Whether it's a club game, Ranji Trophy game or an IPL game, the way I prepare mentally never changes.

— Mayank Agarwal

I know that Ronda Rousey is one of the greatest athletes in this sport.

— Joanna Jedrzejczyk

I think a lot of athletes when they get in their mid and late 30s, they focus more on kids, on family.

— Justin Gatlin

I'm not into sports. I mean...I like Gatorade, but that's as far as it goes.

— Mitch Hedberg

My job is to go out there and play football. My job is to go out there and win football games.

— Ezekiel Elliott

In sports entertainment, you can take your time and digest what's going on along with the audience.

— Shayna Baszler

Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.

— Frank Shorter

Tennis is one of those sports: whatever you put in, you get out.

— Grigor Dimitrov

I really enjoy being in the game for every single ball.

— Jonny Bairstow

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

— George Best

Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.

— Earl Blaik

We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule.

— Cal Stoll

“I'm not doing it for media attention, not doing it for sponsors, not for money.”

— Nastia Liukin