Sports Quotes · Page 251

Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.

— Kapil Dev

We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell "jump shot" rather than how to shoot it.

— Larry Hawkins

We play a contact sport, and it's aggressive, and you have to be aggressive in everything you do.

— Jimmy Graham

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, youre the best.

— Jack Nicklaus

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

— Aron Nimzowitsch

I used to play lots of sports. I used to be a good tennis player. I used to be a decent golfer.

— Chris Murphy

Well, I don't have much competition here." "You don't have much competition anywhere.

— Suzanne Collins

This is a game, don't put too much stress on yourself.

— Shaun Livingston

This is boxing. It's not like a baseball game. The fighters say, 'I need a lot of money or I don't fight,…

— Gennady Golovkin

There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.

— Anonymous

In college wrestling, you see a lot of talented athletes come in and fail because Division I class wrestling is the pinnacle…

— Ben Askren

This is a sport (wrestling) that has turned many boys into men and many men into leaders. And it is a sport…

— Carl Albert

Professional gaming competitions are creating celebrities who are recognized and revered as athletes were in prior generations. Spectator gaming is becoming as…

— Bobby Kotick

What's crazy about this sport, is that it's tough to find one person to say that's the greatest. I feel like any…

— Chad Mendes

I am the owner of my prosthetic manufacturing business, BioDapt, which manufactures lower-limb prosthetics for sports.

— Mike Schultz

I don't need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet and I'll show you…

— Lionel Messi

With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker…

— Andy Van Slyke

Tony [Walters] was one of the first international world-class athlete I had ever dealt with and I was lucky enough to have…

— Chris Algieri

In our lives we will encounter many challenges, and tomorrow we face one together. How we accept the challenge and attack the…

— Beth Anders

Football is what you do, but it's not who you are. It's a big part of who you are. Part of who…

— Andrew Luck

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who…

— Pope Francis

Most kids are very seriously interested in something - friends, math, shopping, sports. For me it happened to be music and the…

— Hilary Hahn

I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause…

— Robert Greene

I've achieved everything I ever wanted. I've done three Olympics, world championships, I've been around the world and made good friends. But…

— Leisel Jones

Judge me on how I play football, or judge me on when you meet me.

— Ashley Cole

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

— Rachel Griffiths

It's why you become a footballer, so you can play against the best in the Champions League.

— Joshua Kimmich

What people resent, in sport, is if you go out with a whimper.

— Steve Bruce

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

— Daley Thompson

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

— William Cowper

When you stand on the victory stand, you must be able to ask yourself: 'Did I win this medal?'

— Kipchoge Keino

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

— Lou Holtz

Maybe it's the athlete in us all where you know you don't want to lie down and just take it.

— Rob Burrow

Extreme high-altitude mountaineering deserves its place among the world's most extreme sports.

— Nirmal Purja

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

— Wilma Rudolph

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

— Jack Nicklaus

You want to have a great pre-season, you want to play games.

— Robert Snodgrass

Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

— Bernard Ingham

I played team handball when I was a child. It is a very brutal sport.

— Freddie Ljungberg

Look, it's a show-me game. I've got to be able to show it.

— Jason Witten