Sports Quotes · Page 299

I would never describe football as a job because it doesn't feel like a job.

— Ivan Rakitic

In games, you have plans, you have strategies, and you follow them.

— Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

When you sign on the dotted line in any sport, your body's not going to be the same.

— Ken Griffey Jr

Success in the sport is, above all else, about enduring suffering.

— Chris McCormack

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

— Stan Smith

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

— Brady Anderson

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

— Michael Wilbon

I did a bit of everything, and I was never beaten. I was into Bruce Lee, mate. Oh yeah! I love my…

— Nigel Benn

Sports were a way for me to get comfortable with my body. I learned to appreciate everything I could still do.

— Oksana Masters

I've never watched 'Game Of Thrones', but I obviously know how huge it is and how the fans responded to it, and…

— Anya Chalotra

I've had some real hard setbacks in this sport and I learned to realize that you can't really build who you are…

— Rashad Evans

Driving a race car isn't too far a cry from driving any other sports car, but driving one through Africa in the…

— Jonathan Miles

I am a footballer. I know how to play football ,and I know how to manage projects in the area of football.…

— Samuel Eto'o

When I was younger, to be honest, watching Bo Jackson, I dreamed of playing both sports. But as I got older, the…

— Jarome Iginla

The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or…

— Tom Seaver

When you live around a working-class environment, you see what sports means to people. You see that it's the escape over the…

— Joe Posnanski

We all know the difference between sports entertainment and the combat sports that I call, but at the end of the day,…

— Mauro Ranallo

I grew up in the South where they are very, very passionate about sports, and I was the artsy kid who didn't…

— Tony Hale

“The sports pages are men's pages, although they are not presented as such. /.../ On foreign fields, the men win their trophies,…

— Michael Billig

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the…

— Ai Weiwei

They're elite athletes. They're amazing athletes. That's why I love football. I mean, it's incredible to me to see them go out…

— Ann McKee

Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him…

— Epictetus

I know that God is working through me within this sport. I know He's put me here for a purpose and it's…

— Elana Meyers

I come in the game to help my teammates and protect the basket.

— Boban Marjanovic

I always believe that speed is the essence for any sport.

— P. T. Usha

IndyCar is what it is and in the back of our minds we all know it is a dangerous sport.

— Scott Dixon

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

— Mia Hamm

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.

— Orel Hershiser

Ideally, you want to play games, and you don't want to train every day without the matches.

— Patrick van Aanholt

I don't look at it as a man's sport because the women play as well. It's an open sport.

— Fallon Sherrock

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

— Claudio Reyna

As the game gets bigger, it get bigger for the players.

— Michael Strahan

People still think I'm a bit of a buffoon - not really an athlete.

— Eddie the Eagle

One thing I get from competitive sports is that I am fiercely ambitious.

— Lexi Alexander

I've grown a lot in this sport. I've seen a lot. I've experienced a lot.

— Shawn Porter

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thus upon them.

— Anonymous

Some sports teams hate each other in the locker room and that's what makes them great.

— Ira Kaplan

You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.

— Reggie Jackson

Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.

— Faraaz Kazi