Sports Quotes · Page 227

Sport has given me drive and discipline. It also taught me to remain humble.

— Charlene, Princess of Monaco

Soccer is an uncomfortable sport. You're running; you're getting tackled.

— Becky Sauerbrunn

The athlete who says that something can't be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it

— John Wooden

I always restart a game when I know I'm going to lose.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Anything can happen. That's why sports are so great, the unexpected.

— Cody Bellinger

I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

Shooting is an amateur sport, but everybody does it professionally.

— Abhinav Bindra

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

— Knute Rockne

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

— Gregg Easterbrook

The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their…

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more…

— Rafael Nadal

The All-Star Game represents everything we as a nation love about basketball on and off the court - diversity, sportsmanship and, most…

— Casey Wasserman

“For when the One Great Scorer comes To mark against your name, He writes - not that you won or lost -…

— Grantland Rice

'Suena' is what the essence of the Olympics are about. There are the best athletes in the world up on one stage.…

— Jencarlos Canela

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

— Earl Warren

[In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger…

— Jimmy Connors

We've just got to be careful - with all sports, let alone cricket - I think there's so much emphasis on doing…

— Shane Warne

Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing…

— Danny Murtaugh

The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting…

— Ice Cube

As an athlete, that's something I always take with me. You fall every day, whether it's in a job, or you miss…

— Michelle Kwan

Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the…

— Satchel Paige

Our team, in general, is in a position where people look up to us, and kids look up to us. I embrace…

— Megan Rapinoe

The NBA has a voice that's why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that's why they had a lockout.…

— Bernard Hopkins

When you put yourself out there as an expert and the people you are trying to attract are people who want to…

— Tony Kornheiser

Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.

— Lou Holtz

If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better.

— Anna Wintour

I looked like a monkey trying to wrestle a football.

— Sam Snead

I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.

— Gary Bettman

I have respect for the sport so I will contribute to the sport by encouraging artists .

— Ab-Soul

The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.

— Marc Parent

I'm afraind of losing my sense of trying to always be better. I love competition against myself.

— Cory Arcangel

In sport, the underdog does come out on top quite a bit.

— Moeen Ali

I want to model and I want to do whatever it takes to be a 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit model.

— Camille Kostek

Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

— Magic Johnson

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

— Billy Graham

I will never forget the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

— Oleksandr Usyk

We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization.

— Felix Sabates

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

— Casey Stengel

Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.

— Penn Jillette

I think as a sportsman we're blessed to have the opportunity to go out and play a sport.

— Mayank Agarwal