Sports Quotes · Page 258

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.

— Alan Turing

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

— Irvin S. Cobb

When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.

— Mary Ellen Clark

My main thing over the years is to try to get on a team and be on a team that wins games.

— Paul Millsap

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!

— Tiger Woods

Sport is important for children, especially from disadvantaged places, to bring up their self esteem.

— Alexander Ovechkin

Coach may have been the greatest innovator the sport has ever had.

— Ken Morrow

I am blessed with a reasonable athletic talent and was an athlete in school.

— Mary Kom

Football is not just a game, it means the world to me and I'm so thankful of what it has given to…

— Danny Ings

A huge part of my passion for the sport comes from being Canadian and growing up watching Hockey Night in Canada on…

— P. K. Subban

Every single sport works out your body in a different way, and you can almost point out their bodies - like, that's…

— Jessie James Decker

“Life would be better if the Leafs would make the playoffs. Life would be perfect if they’d win the Stanley Cup.”

— Tom Earle

Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those…

— Lawrence Taylor

Professional sports have built themselves on the celebration of Americana, the ideas and values that best exemplify America.

— Jason Whitlock

I played many times as a player in European competition and I know how it can make a player better to play…

— Gianfranco Zola

A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it.…

— Jim Lefebvre

During my childhood, I played just about every sport imaginable, which became less feasible at Juilliard... Although I remember our annual dodge-ball…

— Seth Numrich

“Playing sports is a good thing for ordinary people; sport played at the professional level is not good for your health. It…

— Anonymous

I think there's something to baseball, golf, fishing that there's downtime within all of those sports. Even though you're still doing the…

— Jessica Mendoza

I'm telling you, there have been some great finishers in the world of pro wrestling or sports entertainment. Whatever you want to…

— Stone Cold Steve Austin

When I'm sitting around watching a game with some friends, and we're all excited, and Jordan is driving in, we might say,…

— Stuart Scott

I guess it's just human nature to expect to give and to get back, but that's not the case when it comes…

— Matt Mitrione

I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but…

— Nick Hornby

I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans are equal. And if…

— David Stern

This is a contact sport. It's always been a contact sport, especially late in the race.

— Brian France

I played sports. I had boyfriends. I loved high school.

— Ann Coulter

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Epic Games and Microsoft have been close partners for more than 25 years.

— Tim Sweeney

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

— Bertolt Brecht

As much as I love coaching the masters, junior cycling is obviously the future of our sport.

— Robin Farina

Sometimes you don't know how a game is going to unfold.

— Sean Payton

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

— Bear Bryant

The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken

— Tommy Woodcock

Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.

— George Carlin

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

— Alan Shearer

I put the good playing and game first, and money, prizes are secondary.

— P. V. Sindhu

Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.

— Hope Solo

I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport.

— Alberto Juantorena

You look at all other sports, basketball, you think basketball, they're always looking at their target.

— Collin Morikawa

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

— George Foreman