Sports Quotes · Page 209

You don't go into a game thinking, 'I'm not confident.' You always think you're going to win.

— Owen Farrell

If you want experiences to make you a better person, then you play two or three sports.

— Jim Brown

When I started, athletes fought for honor, respect, philosophy.

— Jose Aldo

I worked my whole life and dreamed my whole life of being a professional athlete.

— Gary Woodland

Everywhere I go, people love me, so I'm just blessed. Do you blame them?

— Manny Ramirez

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

— William Arthur Ward

Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I want to be the best back to ever play the freakin' game of football.

— Mark Ingram II

I love the game of football, I love everything about it, I love the studying aspect, I love the team aspect... I'm…

— Luke Kuechly

Sports provides that tool kit to be successful in life. Because it's not always going to be smooth sailing.

— Michelle Kwan

Nike is at its best when we focus on the future. Sport is in a constant state of progression. Athletes are expanding…

— Mark Parker

I think there absolutely are so many lessons that can be learned from sports and so many different positive things that don't…

— Kristopher Belman

We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't…

— Phil Knight

I think the game's evolving - it always is. You don't want to be a dinosaur. You want to evolve with it.

— Davis Webb

When I was much younger and still competing in gymnastics, I could rarely find inspiration outside of the sport.

— Nastia Liukin

I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but…

— Paul Kariya

I have no social life. There is no time for one. Once in a while I may go to dinner with a…

— Liz Halliday

I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote.…

— Samantha Shannon

Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I…

— Dan Gable

You have to watch out because being an athlete and playing at the college level with the opportunity to go the NFL,…

— Aaron Donald

It's important to go against the grain. My favorite celebrity, across arts and sports and everything, is Muhammad Ali. And he was…

— Chance the Rapper

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over…

— Mary McCarthy

People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a…

— Gagan Narang

There's two ways to get paid in this sport, fighting for a belt or fighting with Conor McGregor.

— Dan Hooker

There is no rule that says a footballer needs to be 'this high' and 'this wide.'

— Andres Iniesta

Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.

— Rick Pitino

I prefer playing ATP tournaments and Davis Cup competition rather than Olympic Games.

— Dominic Thiem

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

— Sergei Bubka

Be your authentic self, that way you have no competition

— Denise Clark

Ain't got no competition, cause shawty you the bestest.

— Chris Brown

Instead of sports and all that other stuff, I did plays.

— Brigette Lundy-Paine

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

— Tiger Woods

The most important competition is always the next match.

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

— Katarina Witt

I'm not a great athlete that can play any sport. But one thing I could always do is... fight back.

— B. J. Penn

A manager's job in baseball, more than any other sport, is managing people.

— John Smoltz

You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform

— Anonymous

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go

— Mark Spitz

The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.

— Steven Pressfield