Sports Quotes · Page 266

When you've been around the game so much for so many years, it's just like it's a part of you.

— Paul Pierce

I didnt really watch Dallas growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.

— Jesse Metcalfe

My first steps in football came thanks to my big brother who taught me the game.

— Paulinho

I can remember sport being at the centre of my family since I was a baby.

— Sam Kerr

Playing sports is a craft that has to be worked on and perfected just like anything else.

— B. J. Armstrong

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

— Mickey Mantle

Healthy competition is good to boost ourselves and helps you to take the flight forward.

— Javed Ali

I love pop culture. I love sports. I love entertainment. The fact that I get paid to be a part of this…

— Mauro Ranallo

Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time…

— Johan Cruijff

A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths…

— Chris Crutcher

We're a team, and just by the nature of our sport, we're always promoted together. I think we are definitely two different…

— Misty May-Treanor

I approach every game the same way. The night before the game and during the game, I approach it the same way.

— Tobias Harris

After winning a medal, many athletes give up and go into oblivion, the reason being lack of encouragement.

— P. T. Usha

The thing I always demand is respect. I respect everybody and have a history in the sport, and I believe people need…

— Anderson Silva

When my parents were paying for my sport, it wasn't just me out on the ice. Pretty much every dollar my mom…

— Ashley Wagner

I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning…

— Jonah Lomu

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating…

— Michael Mandelbaum

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the…

— Novak Djokovic

Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game...One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize…

— Tom Seaver

My dad always wanted me to be faster and he wanted to give me strength in my muscles. He let me run…

— Timo Werner

[T]he Super Bowl, the quintessential American creation. A dizzying mélange of brilliant entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of intense competition. It is the…

— Robert Klein

I come from a very athletic family. But I didn't have the typical Jewish sports heroes. I mean, like lots of Jewish…

— Bill Goldberg

I'm a rock climber. I really specialize in doing first ascents, and finding new routes outside, as opposed to doing competitions. I…

— Chris Sharma

Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.

— Billie Jean King

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

— Thomas S. Monson

Sport is dirty if you want to win, but I am not a dirty player.

— Aleksandar Mitrovic

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

We are on ESPN now. That is supposed to mean something.

— Curtis Blaydes

Clean sports becomes an ethical question, but I believe in it.

— Bryan Fogel

Thats the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry

— Pep Guardiola

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

— Phil Knight

It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.

— Joe Montana

It is important to go out and play each game positively.

— Kane Williamson

I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat.

— Paul Pierce

The game. They say a person either has what it takes to play, or they dont.

— Grey's Anatomy

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

— Jimmy Wales

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

— Brooks Robinson

We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?

— Hunter S. Thompson