Sports Quotes · Page 300

The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.

— Sigmund Freud

We are all out here to play hard and try to win games.

— Jordan Poole

I dive into a sport just long enough to know what I'm doing and then do what I want to do.

— Travis Pastrana

All society wants from me is to sit down, shut up, go to training and play my sport.

— Liz Cambage

The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.

— Bob Costas

At the end of the day, just got to go play football. That's all there is to it.

— Shaquill Griffin

We all know what it's like to have the ups and downs in this sport.

— Cub Swanson

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

— Steve Cauthen

Wouldn't anyone want to take a job in a professional sport in one of the biggest sports in the world and only…

— Bernard Tomic

If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the…

— Mat Hoffman

“I told him how winning never feels as good as losing feels bad and when he asked why, I told him that…

— Douglas Brunt

The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,…

— William Cowper

We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics,…

— Alberto Juantorena

“The recruiter didn't bother to introduce himself when Alumbaugh extended his hand. Instead, he turned to Aliotti and said: "He's not six-foot-one."…

— Neil Hayes

I was a child who was interested in sports, and represented my school in football, cricket, badminton and table tennis.

— Siddharth Shukla

My mom would keep all kinds of materials in her classroom for children for reading. She kept comic books, newspapers, sports magazines,…

— Diana Gabaldon

I try to stay level-headed and it's always the way I've been. Sometimes your personality out in the real world, you want…

— Eli Manning

It's not nuclear physics. You always remember that. But if you write about sports long enough, you're constantly coming back to the…

— Tom Callahan

Everyone who has been to an Olympics says expect the unexpected. That kind of psychology games does go on, so I'm kind…

— Libby Trickett

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I…

— Mitch Albom

I learned a hell of a lot from my co-star, Kurt Russell. He's one of my closest friends and was one of…

— Tim Matheson

My greatest influences in my sport have been two former number one English lady darts players, Deta Hedman and Mandy Solomons. Deta…

— Trina Gulliver

Some sports give a lot of emotions because you know the people well, not personally but they express their passion and their…

— Patrick Mouratoglou

Men do really dumb things. We see weapons of mass destruction where there are none. We over-emphasize sports. We place athletic achievement…

— Jason Whitlock

“There was no 'I' in team, but there was meat in team. And we were all dead meat.”

— Jennifer Lane

Chiropractic has helped keep me injury free - that is half the trick to staying in competition,

— Lee Labrada

“That’s what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.”

— Raph Koster

I would just always rather play the sport than watch it, so I tend to stay away from the sports on TV.

— T. J. Oshie

What keeps athletes going is the optimism we are going to be able to compete again.

— Mark Cavendish

I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.

— Jacques Villeneuve

Never mishandle hope or self-confidence - those are elements of life, not just a game.

— John Kessel

The game is always about how much you commit one way or the other.

— Eddie Howe

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.

— William Baldwin

In any professional sports, in general, the community and the team go hand and hand.

— Tobias Harris

That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.

— Shawn Johnson

I still feel like my game is very dangerous. I always will have my serve.

— Pete Sampras

In a way, I've thrived on the competition, perhaps it has made a better player because of it.

— Frank Lampard

I'm never going to be an athlete, never going to be running triathlons - I'm not that person.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

Win or go home. That's what you play for. That's what we love. We love this type of game.

— Jaren Jackson, Jr

When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

— Malcolm Gladwell