Sports Quotes · Page 290

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

— Ben Hogan

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

— David Millar

The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.

— Herb Elliott

What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!

— Ivan Slavkov

I'm trying to make the game easier for everyone else.

— Khris Middleton

The big games against big opponents, those are the best games to play in.

— Oscar

I know my game's on, and when my game's on, I know I can beat any player in the world.

— Roger Federer

“Anyone who likes or hates Dana White should take a look at this.”

— June White

“Football is a simple game; twenty-two men chase a ball for ninety minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.”

— George Vecsey

Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

— Anson Dorrance

My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My…

— Saina Nehwal

If you are good at something, and especially, if people who matter tell you that you are good enough, you must follow…

— Mary Kom

You pay attention to detail. You try to win every time. You play tough. And when you play the right way and…

— Christian Laettner

In this sport, the way I look at it, going off one fight and straight into another one, you have to make…

— Darren Elkins

It takes a lot of hard work and dedication just like any pro sport. Especially for beach volleyball you don't have to…

— Misty May-Treanor

I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot…

— Steven Knight

By empowering players - not just players, but grown men - to think for themselves outside of the game, you hope that…

— Jonathan Agnew

Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe;…

— Arnold Haultain

F1 has to keep appealing to sports fans and not only to motor racing fans but to possibly a wider public... I…

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

“Sport has a way of finding characters who se impact goes well beyond the playing fields, and touches the core of what…

— Anindya Dutta

For one thing, I would like to see some new faces in all sports associations. Often you have the same people controlling…

— P. T. Usha

I think it reaffirmed something that I believed in and conceptually always had faith in which was that you're most effective when…

— Will Poulter

“I have to race because racing is a part of me. But I had to learn to race from a place of…

— Erin Beresini

Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on…

— Ben Jonson

I also think we live in a competitive world, and I love competition.

— Arsene Wenger

I really want to make a big mark in athletics, to be a legend and be a good example to kids.

— Eliud Kipchoge

After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day.

— Jodelle Ferland

I mean 162 games is very challenging, regardless if you have success or not.

— Alex Cora

We all love Conor McGregor's fights. I mean he's the biggest combat sports star in history probably.

— Mike Perry

I train like an athlete. I am very competitive. I like to fight. I like to prove my performance.

— Angad Bedi

I know that I won't be an athlete forever. I have to have a vision of what I want to be afterward.

— Harrison Barnes

Neither tennis nor golf is considered among the top two sports in Japan.

— Kei Nishikori

I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.

— Steve Nash

I just think there's no reason to limit yourself to one sport.

— Kyler Murray

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

— Michael Eisner

My most frequent admonition to athletes and coaches is: train, do not strain.

— Arthur Lydiard

I am an athlete, and I focus more on the issues that concern me: training, perform, eat, sleep.

— Caster Semenya

I don't really care about my game, honestly. I just want to win.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine.

— Kim Collins

“I feel like having another thigh and calf would give me a leg up on my competition.”

— Jarod Kintz