Sports Quotes · Page 267

Concerning the limits and limitations of the women's game - why should we believe there are any?

— Helen Wills

When everyone has good players, teaching will be a telling difference.

— John Wooden

I'm a sports fanatic. I watch it every morning, every day.

— Steve Harwell

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

— Bill Bradley

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

— John Madden

I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'

— Vince Lombardi

I am a football man and this and my family are my focus.

— Paolo di Canio

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

— David Halberstam

We want a clean and effective Olympic body where it can help us and Indian sports to grow and we athletes can…

— Abhinav Bindra

Athletics talent is more prominent in the villages than in the urban areas because the main factor determining the difference is hard…

— Milkha Singh

My kids used to do things to aggravate me, too. I'd take them to a game, and they'd want to come home…

— Bob Uecker

You win football games by first getting possession and then running 3- and 5-yard plays. Not by Hail Mary passes. Common sense,…

— Greg Gianforte

You have to have a lot of motivation, a lot of heart and be able to work hard. You can never be…

— Bengie Molina

Football is a competition to see who's the best, not a battle. It's not a war. When it ends, we're still alive.

— Thiago Alcantara

Why is UCLA and Georgia Tech in China to play a basketball game? Missing all that school, and then force-feeding their fans…

— Jeff Van Gundy

I wasn't the athletic kid in my family. Both of my brothers were on athletic scholarships and my dad played semi-pro hockey.…

— Trevor McNevan

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed…

— George Bernard Shaw

I have finished games where I have hardly touched the ball, yet reached the dressing room dead on my feet. You think…

— Victor Valdes

Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses…

— Hilary McKay

It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and…

— Jill Lepore

There's very few of us who are able to be successful, which is why so many guys out of college can't continue…

— Jonathan Horton

Part of the experience of enjoying a tennis match on TV is listening to the observations of an expert commentator -- one…

— Dave McPherson

[At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm…

— Elana Meyers

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

— Emma Donoghue

I wanted to represent African-American athletes in a better way than what I saw when I grew up.

— Ahmad Rashad

I get to play a game that I love and I'm going to make the most of it.

— Marcus Mariota

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.

— Mike Penner

Knowledge comes from your instructors; wisdom comes from within.

— Dan Inosanto

Music is not a spectator sport, you have to be involved - fully involved - or you get left behind.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

— Duffy Daugherty

For some reason, when I drive a sports car everything becomes sexy.

— Keeley Hazell

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

— Jim Sensenbrenner

Anytime that you're getting games in, you're going to get better.

— Becky Sauerbrunn

There are really smart baseball players. It's a thinking person's game.

— Richard Linklater

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

— Gerald R. Ford

Tennis is a running game, not a hitting game - it's not golf.

— Mats Wilander

No one likes high school and college sports more than I do.

— Tate Reeves

Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

— Durwood Merrill

I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.

— SZA