Sports Quotes · Page 372

I'm trying to just be a student of the game. Continue to work, continue to get better because that's what got me…

— Alex Caruso

Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their…

— Bobby Bonilla

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

— Diana Ross

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

— Elgin Baylor

I've been around fighters enough to know that you have to be able to give 100 percent of your effort and time…

— Shawn Tompkins

Snooker has just been a British-based sport for such a long time and when I started at 18 the furthest you'd go…

— John Higgins

When you're walking onto a bus and trying to get there before the person in front of you, that's a different level…

— Graeme Le Saux

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

— Mason Cooley

I think with more electric vehicles on the road, hopefully we'll still be able to drive some fantastic sports cars with big…

— Henrik Fisker

There's food and supplements that you can take legally that will better your body and help you stay healthy. Shortcuts are something…

— Jake Arrieta

As someone that has always been involved in sport, I firmly believe that people do need to be fitter and healthier in…

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

You make your own luck in life, so I'm not criticizing anyone - and I'm not even talking about myself for that…

— Steve Nash

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and…

— Marta

I don't believe the old statement, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." If that were the case, then Cadillacs and Jaguars…

— Vic Bubas

That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant…

— Garrison Keillor

“It is otherwise with sports and the media. There, too, a shift has occurred, from active participation to the vicarious participation of…

— Walker Percy

You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening…

— Sammy Sosa

I've been able to not only be a fighter, but a thinking fighter, where I can use my insight into the business…

— Mikey Garcia

I am a huge sports fan. I grew up playing sports and I'm a huge [Arkansas] Razorbacks fan, but any sports personally.

— Kris Allen

I think that in all aspects of the game, especially in professional sports but specifically in hockey, we want to grow the…

— P.K. Subban

At Barca we trained every day with the ball. I hardly even took a step running without a ball at my feet.

— Lionel Messi

As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue…

— Hidetoshi Nakata

The athletes realize what they have to do on the field sometimes and don't always think about the entertainment value of what…

— Jozy Altidore

“You see your competition as a learning source, as friends who can keep you sharp and teach you where your weaknesses are.”

— Stephen R. Covey

When we created Overwatch at Blizzard, it was always with the expectation that we would be able to celebrate and recognize our…

— Bobby Kotick

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign…

— John Steinbeck

Football is a game. It's something I love to do. But there are so many things in life that are more important.

— Virgil van Dijk

Obviously, I don't go into a game not wanting to do well. I go into every game to try to do my…

— Kieran Trippier

I think the hardest thing is that all of us would love to just stick to sports - but if you want…

— Elana Meyers

I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis…

— Gabriela Sabatini

I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine…

— Bernhard Langer

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here…

— Richard Ford

I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside,…

— Kellan Lutz

I played team sports, but I never felt like I fitted in that well, so this allowed me to be part of…

— Tony Hawk

When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best…

— Katarina Witt

You're never going to make everybody happy; there are always going to be people that, yeah, aren't with you. That's the nature…

— Alex Smith

If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, Felt in the tingling bruises…

— Anthony Hecht

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in…

— Linford Christie

Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of…

— Mike Seabrook

The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

— Bill Toomey