Sports Quotes · Page 401

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest…

— Earl Weaver

I don't think I'd be the wrestler or the athlete that I am today if I didn't have some of the intergender…

— Tessa Blanchard

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

— Ray Lewis

I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.

— Michael Jordan

I had a big brother so I always wanted him to hang out with me, but he wouldn't. So I always did…

— Lindsey Morgan

Playing in a competition like the Champions League is important for a player; it makes you feel much more of a professional…

— Iker Casillas

The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field,…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I typically like to train with the mentality of a high-performance athlete. I put in the work and do what it takes…

— Kelly Rowland

I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends…

— Jimmy Johnson

I've played hockey most my life and I've never been badly injured...Three weeks into curling I've got bone chips in both my…

— James Allodi

Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with…

— Bill Maher

As each game goes on, you learn things about the two other players and try to put everything together and make your…

— Johnny Gaudreau

The one thing I would say is, I do think women are evaluated differently than men. How we look, what is our…

— Doris Burke

I think I'm competitive. Competition fuels me. The urge to win. I want to win; I want the ball in my hands…

— Case Keenum

Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.

— Bill Brandt

I am a fangirl of talent, so to see someone slaying the competition doing what I'd love to do, that's inspiring to…

— Tyler Oakley

I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with…

— Bernie Ecclestone

I would hope there would be a greater appreciation by casual sports fans of the incredible skill and passion of our players.

— Gary Bettman

I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile…

— Dean Smith

Sports is good for health and for children, it gives them manhood, courage, teaches them team work and coordination. Sports is something…

— Hakeem Olajuwon

As a kid, I was a paperboy, and the walls of the place where we picked up our papers were plastered with…

— Richard Cohen

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the…

— Harry Stack Sullivan

One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the…

— Tim Tebow

Here's my take: People watch sports to get away from day-to-day stresses, work, illness, financial worries. We don't need to be reminded…

— Jeanine Pirro

Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of…

— Jane Leavy

I found out early on with Outkick is that what people were really coming for was not necessarily my opinion on sports,…

— Clay Travis

Guys want to go out here and get the job done. Guys want to fight. We're going to fight and grind every…

— Alex Bregman

I am wedded to Newcastle like Sports Direct. They've got me and I've got them. That's just the way it is.

— Mike Ashley

I try to take the approach that everyone really is an athlete at some level. I mean, we were all on the…

— Gunnar Peterson

To be successful in this sport, you have to turn off the pain. But when something's aggravated in practice, you need to…

— Jim Miller

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the…

— Nelson Mandela

A corner of his mouth quirked up. “I play pool. Shoot hoops sometimes too. Any other sport you’re curious about?” “Hockey? Polo?”…

— Devon Monk

Playing the sport has taught me about teamwork and how to be a good team player, social skills and most importantly, dedication.

— P. K. Subban

If I wasn't active and involved in different sports and just moving around, I wouldn't have even known that I had the…

— Allyson Felix

When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made

— Mark Webber

What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn…

— Shaun White

I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly…

— Ann Coulter

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I…

— Reggie Jackson