America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country. — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to play bad football in a game; everybody wants to win, and every player wants to show how good he… — Dimitar Berbatov Copy Share Image
When 'Games of Thrones' is finished, I'm not one to go on about it too long and rest on one's laurels. The… — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
E! didn't like it when we'd make fun of clips from ESPN - they'd be like, 'That's sports! That's not our audience!' — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person. — Curt Flood Copy Share Image
War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Games against Belgium are the type of games you want to play in as a player - the big games, the games… — Bukayo Saka Copy Share Image
It's in my dreams, being champion and staying champion and being one of the major champions in the sport. — Keith Thurman Copy Share Image
Golf is no longer a game of hitting the ball, finding it, and hitting it again. There is wind to be measured,… — Doug Ferguson Copy Share Image
“behind the athlete you have become, the hours of practice and pain that made you strive to reach your goal, is the… — anonymise Copy Share Image
Something is swelling up among our athletes. Many of them are frustrated, everywhere in the world, and they are looking for a… — Travis Tygart Copy Share Image
I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That's why I'm so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
My dad excelled at so many sports in his life. Everything from professional football to being a world-class shot putter, but nothing… — Natalya Neidhart Copy Share Image
Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I don't believe in playing just one sport. I believe it results in burnout, and each sport trains your body in a… — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
Sports provides the chance for the athlete, unlike the ordinary person, to open the door and meet people. — George Mikan Copy Share Image
I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Unless we get children playing tennis, we'll lose the talented ones with good athletic ability and hand-eye coordination to football and other… — Tim Henman Copy Share Image
What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I was happy at ESPN, I was succeeding at ESPN and I love sports. But the very foundational principles, set aside politics,… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
I love that fact that Kayla actually persevered and went back to her sport. That's the role models. Sometimes, things like that… — Dana Hee Copy Share Image
“ 'When two people meet who are obviously attracted to each other, like we are, it always starts out as a game.… — S.J.D. Peterson Copy Share Image
It's a showman's sport. I think the rivalry that I have with Usain and myself has turned it into a professional-wrestling feel. — Justin Gatlin Copy Share Image
All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running. — Haile Gebrselassie Copy Share Image
In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
As a kid, playing sports, I was never the best athlete on my teams, but I was always the guy people looked… — Tommaso Ciampa Copy Share Image
In training, the players would deliberately hit high balls into me and barge into me so I'd get used to that side… — David de Gea Copy Share Image
Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody. — Scott Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you're doing a column, you kind of have to. Like in the back of Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly has to find… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Even though you think boxing is a contact sport, it teaches you not to fight on the street, to behave. It gives… — Amir Khan Copy Share Image
When sports gets involved with petty politics from authorities and co-athletes, it becomes a nasty game. — P. T. Usha Copy Share Image
Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately,… — Guy Forget Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees. — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may… — Donald Driver Copy Share Image
I feel like our sport is very competitive. You don't go against each other body to body, you know, like physical, but… — Jannik Sinner Copy Share Image
You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete. — Vernon Wells Copy Share Image
Whether at the Olympic Games or during a Davis Cup tie I am extremely proud and honored to represent my country. — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Copy Share Image
