Sports Quotes · Page 291

The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.

— Croft M. Pentz

I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.

— Stephen Wallem

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

— Bill Gates

My job is to help the team win games to the best of my ability.

— Spencer Dinwiddie

I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.

— Michel Gondry

I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.

— Jeff Lindsay

Football is a funny game. Today, you are zero; tomorrow, you are a hero.

— Emmanuel Adebayor

You can't slow the game here. It's grass, it's always going to be fast.

— Goran Ivanisevic

Too often in this world, the things you root for - whether sports teams or spouses to recover from horrible diseases -…

— Charles Bock

I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out…

— Zach LaVine

People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about…

— Daley Thompson

The only thing we know for sure about superiority in sports in the United States of America in the 20th century is…

— Frank Deford

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

— Siegbert Tarrasch

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new…

— John Thorn

When you're young it's football, football, football. Then you get a family, kids come into things and you find you have a…

— Michael Ballack

You always want that as a kid - known as a sports star - but it can be a little front confronting…

— Sam Kerr

I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that's…

— Teri McKeever

You see now more girls getting involved in their sports because they can see it on TV and see these people playing,…

— Fran Kirby

I thought that was very important to show my support and play a role in equaling out the playing field for women…

— Jalen Hurts

By coincidence, this particular tiny show on earth that consists entirely of me talking about sports on NPR is also folding its…

— Frank Deford

In high school you just kind of go with it, you belong to a sport and you're lettering and there is a…

— Kristin Armstrong

Yes, I'm a volleyball player. Yes, I play one of the hardest sports, even if there's no contact. No, I don't run…

— Anonymous

I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me. That's what I do and it's what I love,…

— Allyson Felix

I'm always interested in furthering our sport. Like, I would love to be a correspondent newsperson, somebody who informs the fans a…

— Roy Nelson

I want big games to prove to myself that I'm a winner and not a loser.

— Danilo Gallinari

Running reminded me exactly who I am and what I am made of.

— Lynn Jennings

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

— Jerry Flint

One player's influence in football is not as big as in other sports: it's 11 players vs. 11 players.

— Bastian Schweinsteiger

Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.

— Tony Gonzalez

I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.

— Stephen Moyer

This is so surreal!! I am so excited to say that I am a 2012 Olympian!! I'm going to London!!!

— Gabrielle Douglas

I played football with my whole body - My hands, my head, my face. I did it all.

— Earl Campbell

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

— Anne Bancroft

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“The real sports of the Hunger Games is watching the tributes kill one another”

— Suzanne Collins

We need to wake up to idea that you cannot treat sport on equal terms with other parts of the economy.

— Frans Timmermans

Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that.

— Dante Hall

I don't mind showboating. Sports are supposed to be fun.

— Ariel Helwani

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

— Arsene Wenger

When you have a concept and a sport like this, you have to have a vision.

— Dana White