To me, figure skating is a diving sport. It's a sport made by the gods. It inspires people to cry, it inspires… — Frank Carroll Copy Share Image
You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that… — Christy Mathewson Copy Share Image
Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what ifs' and dreams of gold medals. That way,… — Shannon Miller Copy Share Image
I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his: I won't play forever. Some don't know when to… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has mandated that as drivers, we are very… — Charlie Kimball Copy Share Image
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
If the jump is perfect, you come out, and you feel like you took a three-pointer in basketball or doing the perfect… — Nathan Chen Copy Share Image
Olympics are three times more likely to be employed than people of a similar age, ethnic and socioeconomic status who have not… — Timothy Shriver Copy Share Image
“If basketball was going to enable Bradley to make friends, to prove that a banker's son is as good as the next… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
Japan had the big earthquake in 2011, and the Olympics will be a good opportunity to bring strength to the people of… — Kohei Uchimura Copy Share Image
I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I… — Cedric Yarbrough Copy Share Image
Football is definitely a team sport. Without one person doing the right thing, the whole team falls. At Navy and in lacrosse,… — Sean Price Copy Share Image
Number one in high school, when I was sort of entrenched in the street life, if you will, the major thing that… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I played fly-half in rugby, so I could influence the game, and midfield in hockey too. So it is part of my… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
I started off playing sports when I was five years old. I played three or four sports all throughout the year. — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
My senior school didn't play football. It was a rugby and cricket school, and as I was on a sports scholarship, I… — Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Book in relaxation time as you would book in everything else. Back in the day, as an athlete, that was important. — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
If you are pushing your sport, chances are good that you will want to be in a place that encourages and helps… — Travis Pastrana Copy Share Image
Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were… — John Kessel Copy Share Image
I try to take the mental aspects of every sport that I've ever played and use it toward kicking, how to react… — Stephen Gostkowski Copy Share Image
I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.' — Haile Gebrselassie Copy Share Image
Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Any sport you're going to do, you're going to lose more than you win. People don't realize how hard it is to… — Diandra Asbaty Copy Share Image
The way I represent my individuality is by mixing classic pieces - like sports jackets - with little, unexpected additions. — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes.… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something… — Curtis Joseph Copy Share Image
I'm studying psychology at Loughborough and there are so many sportspeople here - you actually see top athletes walking around - but… — Ellie Simmonds Copy Share Image
In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves. — Bill Shankly Copy Share Image
When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Being a thicker post player, and being someone who grew up with self-confidence issues, it's pretty empowering that I've been chosen as… — Liz Cambage Copy Share Image
You can't just fast-forward to Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals. You have to go out there and earn it. — Roy Hibbert Copy Share Image
Basketball is the axis that allows me to do the things that I do. I have so much love for the game,… — Russell Westbrook Copy Share Image
I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play,… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shouldn't be playing rugby.' — Francois Hougaard Copy Share Image
Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
