Sports Quotes · Page 303

There's always competition in the world, but you don't have to be enemies. You can empower each other.

— Justine Skye

“I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.”

— Pat Conroy

You can't play the game if you don't believe you're the best player out there.

— Lauri Markkanen

Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.

— Bruce Pearl

As a footballer, you just have to try to learn what you've done bad and what I could do good.

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan

It truly takes a village to become a professional athlete.

— Zach Ertz

I'm pretty competitive. I talk a big game - even when I'm going to lose.

— Kate Upton

There is no way American sports are any cleaner than cycling.

— Jemele Hill

The sport of volleyball will never give you something that you can't handle; whether you do handle it is another question.

— John Kessel

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the…

— Judith Jamison

Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn't grow with the size of the person - it…

— Andre Agassi

The objective is to help my team-mates, the more minutes on the pitch and the more games I play, the better.

— Pedro

I think today's athletes generally are spoiled by what's happened to salaries, but I also think that golfers have maintained the best…

— Arnold Palmer

NASCAR racing provides more brand awareness and interest than any of the other major sports. The opportunities to build business-to-business relationships within…

— David Fricke

It's a 30-game season, and guys in college are big, strong, athletic and they're playing to show you what they can do…

— Austin Rivers

I needed my teammates to know I'm going to produce X amount of things every game, because that's how you win, when…

— A'ja Wilson

As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was…

— Zach Braff

The government, in conjunction with major tech companies and the media, has colluded to censor anyone who has challenged the consensus opinion…

— Clay Travis

I wasn't one of those guys that played AAU basketball and ran track. I just played football. I dabbled in basketball in…

— Alvin Kamara

All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball…

— Mike Royko

I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play…

— Josh Hutcherson

I would love to fall in love and get married and have beautiful children. I mean that's one of the goals in…

— Tiesto

Somewhere behind the athlete i've become, the hours of practice, the coaches that pushed me, the team-mates that believed in me, the…

— Nathan Josey

Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those…

— Yvon Chouinard

“I know your game, you know. You get nasty when you're backed into a corner.”

— Lauren Dane

I will never sacrifice my morals and ethics for anyone or any win.

— Mike Candrea

I was an average student, who took active interest in athletics.

— Akshaye Khanna

At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages.

— Lloyd Dorfman

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

— Pierre de Coubertin

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

— Bill Shoemaker

I'm a big watcher of sports, consumer of sports content, so I love documentaries; I love the format.

— Peter Billingsley

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

— Doc Rivers

I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.

— Bobby Layne

People used to say sports and politics are different, but now it is the opposite.

— Antonio Inoki

Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.

— Shaun White

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

— Anonymous

I'm a professional athlete, I'm a businesswoman and I know who I am.

— Joanna Jedrzejczyk

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

— Walt Disney

Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.

— Magic Johnson

Booing - I never like it. We see it in other sports all the time, but in tennis, it's rare.

— Alexander Zverev