Sports Quotes · Page 253

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

— Robert Wilson Lynd

Superior athletes want to be accountable for their own results. —

— Marv Dunphy

I really don't focus on the competition at all. Like even on the football field it's me versus me.

— Marquise Goodwin

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

— Fran Tarkenton

I want to go out and win football games, and I want the ball to be put in my hands.

— Joe Flacco

I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.

— Magdalena Neuner

If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.

— Vince Lombardi

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

— Michael B. Jordan

I've never believed in competition. Everyone's here to do their own thing and become successful in that respect.

— Armaan Malik

I am very proud to align myself with Miken - a brand known as an innovator and leader in the development of…

— Brett Hull

The way I play - I'm the guy moving, coming off screens, getting up and down the floor. I should be one…

— Joe Harris

I played street basketball for a while and wanted to play competitively, but I was so used to the street-style of game…

— J. D. Martinez

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And…

— Demetri Martin

I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later…

— Gerald R. Ford

When I got into this sport, I thought all I had to do was beat people and finish fights, and everything else…

— Demetrious Johnson

I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at…

— Zach Johnson

One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between…

— Chuck Todd

I decided to join the Challenged Athletes Foundation's cycling tour from San Francisco to San Diego, a fundraiser to help veterans and…

— Kevin Faulconer

This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and…

— Marie Marvingt

So many times in today's society, we can put football No. 1. And I've done it in my life at certain times.…

— Tim Tebow

My goal, for almost my entire career, has been to promote ski racing not just in America, but across the world. I…

— Lindsey Vonn

Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning…

— Alan Cohen

Kuala Lumpur was my first ever multi-sports games. I didn't do very well but the experience and enjoyment I had of those…

— Chris Hoy

One of the most unfortunate things I see when identifying youth players is the girl who is told over the years how…

— Anson Dorrance

I think there's an infinite number of cool technology sports that should exist that don't.

— Saul Griffith

“The only person you are ever really in competition with is yourself. Be Your Best. #Percolate”

— Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino

When you're together, you can do anything, be it in sports or in society.

— Niko Kovac

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

— Yao Ming

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along.

— Cleo Moore

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.

— Paul Ryan

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

— Adam Shankman

If there is a sport that I'm not particularly fond of, then it is synchronized swimming.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

I get emotional. I get into the game a lot and I enjoy it a lot.

— Joe Ingles

I want to encourage more people in small villages to take up sports.

— Sangram Singh

If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.

— C. Vivian Stringer

So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.

— Dan Fouts

Bashing the Religious Right has become an acceptable political sport.

— Rick Scarborough

I always play every game like my back is against the wall, that this could be it.

— Shaun Alexander

So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.

— Omari Hardwick