Sports Quotes · Page 246

It is an individual sport and you don't get many opportunities to overturn dodgy decisions.

— George Groves

I want to inspire the next generation of athletes, not just figure skaters.

— Scott Moir

Just played a little game with that pedestrian, it's called Hit & Run.

— Nikhil Saluja

My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.

— Randy Castillo

Fear gives you your intensity, it gives you your game.

— Chris Eubank Sr

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

If I hadn't wanted to become a footballer, Dad wouldn't have made me do it.

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

We have to be careful not to let our game not be the game we know it should be.

— Paul Ince

When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I…

— Ross Perot

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how…

— Brett Favre

I played hockey, as most girls who go to convent schools in Ireland do, as well as table tennis and badminton -…

— Laura Whitmore

Professional sports is a monster. It's not even real life. It's one of the few things in life, the economy goes bad,…

— Jermaine O'Neal

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

— Ambrose Bierce

I love what I am doing on 'SportsNation' and to now have the opportunity to do even more on 'Winners Bracket' as…

— Michelle Beadle

I often speak about tennis being one of the most important sports when I was growing up, for my hand-eye coordination and…

— AB de Villiers

If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other…

— Willie Mays

When you read a book [The Hunger Games], you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading…

— Nina Jacobson

Confidence comes from hard work. It comes from facing different situations and making putts. It comes from knowing you've worked on the…

— David Duval

If one has to conform to a certain taste, he/she might lose his/her own individuality and imagination. But if you don't really…

— George Li

There are plenty of sports teams that say they're very open and super accepting in the locker room. But are they really?…

— Megan Rapinoe

I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps…

— Bobby Knight

“Give up your attachment to comfortable ways of living - show yourself in the gymnasium (gymnos = 'naked'), prove that you are…

— Peter Sloterdijk

What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith…

— Garrison Keillor

Unfortunately this is the legacy that has been handed to us by the people before us, people who have won the Tour…

— Chris Froome

We've got to have a radical rethink of the way the sport is funded to help the young players develop.

— John Higgins

I'm a competitive guy, and I love the competitive nature of video games.

— Gordon Hayward

If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.

— Michael Phelps

The ultimate goal of any athlete in any sport is to become a true world champion.

— Thomas Hauser

I came to this sport to prove to myself and others that I am this big and loud champion.

— Vasyl Lomachenko

Buying involves decision-making. It's a performance activity, like sports or acting.

— Mark Goulston

I can't be getting off my game. I need to be getting teams off their games.

— Brad Marchand

I'd rather lose a game trying to win it, than lose it trying not to get beat

— Brendan Rodgers

I just want to improve game to game and try to get better.

— Colin Kaepernick

I'm all for competition; competition is good. I just want to make sure the playing field is level.

— Leanne Caret

I'm a chilled-out guy, and I really like sports and to play badminton and squash.

— Bobby Deol

Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism.

— Howard Frank Mosher

In sports you don't get what you wish for, you get what you work for.

— Azgraybebly Joslan

“I’m at the top of my game. And that game is Monopoly. I’m standing on the board right now.”

— Jarod Kintz

Football is about making mistakes. Who makes the most, loses the game.

— Johan Cruijff

I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.

— Rafael Nadal