Sports Quotes · Page 398

MMA fans and pro wrestling fans are similar in that they care about their sports very much. They want to see that…

— Jake Hager

You can’t really worry too much…about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has…

— Anna Wintour

My sport was my comfort. The routine, the camaraderie, the team... everyone's around you. After rugby you're on your own.

— Gareth Thomas

It's always a dream to be on the cover, it's one of the things an athlete always aspires to do, to be…

— Dwyane Wade

There's no doubt about it that my participation in sports allowed me to compete in the business world in a very gender-neutral…

— Beth Brooke

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay…

— Carl Lewis

I'm a firm believer that all sports will eventually be global. Someday, we may have a quarterback from China named Yao Fling.

— Paul Tagliabue

“You’ve played the games. You’re a competitive soul.” “What’s the point of playing if winning isn’t the goal?”

— J.D. Robb

I would consider it the greatest experience of my life, it's the experience that made me a man, that taught me so…

— Ted McGinley

“Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never…

— Stuart Dybek

Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks…

— Rick Pitino

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a…

— Anonymous

I always have on my headphones to block out all of the other distractions and I'm just focused on doing the best…

— Michael Phelps

My life is split in three parts; I don't know the percentage. One could be called "chess" - the Kasparov Chess Foundation,…

— Garry Kasparov

When I came into the NFL, there were three things that were very important to me: money, power and prestige. I was…

— Ryan Leaf

Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring…

— David Biespiel

An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or…

— Arnold Palmer

America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.

— Eric Braeden

It was really a focus on how to in some ways keep moving in this direction towards something that allowed me to…

— Mahershala Ali

It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the…

— Mary Elizabeth Clark

I have decided, and am truly excited to announce, that I will be turning pro. I believe that, in the long run,…

— Mary Cain

Nothing has done more to bring people of different races and different backgrounds together than athletics, certainly more than politicians have done.…

— Mike Leach

[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate…

— David Beckham

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

— Meghan O'Rourke

I give my all for the sport, and I just don't like it when, if things don't work out, people say, 'Oh,…

— Nnamdi Asomugha

Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be…

— Jeff Ross

I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive…

— Adolph Rupp

I would like to see more pictures of what athletes are doing, like in People. Show athletes hanging out with each other,…

— Matt Leinart

The Boys & Girls Club helped make me the man I am today. Because of the lessons I learned there, I'm not…

— Michael Vick

It's a little bit different to than U.S. in Japan. U.S. has a lot of respect for the sports, but not as…

— Kei Nishikori

Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.

— Bear Bryant

Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion…

— Mas Oyama

I'm sick of the media making female sports athletes into supermodels, when they're clearly sixes at best.

— Daniel Tosh

Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports…

— Junior Johnson

Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.

— Lance Mountain

I would love to do a sports biopic. I love sports and I think it would be amazing to be a part…

— Neha Dhupia

Whenever people say 'women's soccer,' I want to correct them to say 'soccer.' Every girl has had their sport diminished because they're…

— Alex Morgan

I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high…

— Jack Ramsay

I think the Olympic Games have been married to political statements. If I go back to Berlin in 1936, it was very…

— John Carlos

You've got to respect the game and you've got to respect what the people that have played have done for the game.

— Dwyane Wade