What's the difference between a three-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In six weeks, the puppy stops whining. — Mike Ditka Copy Share Image
Attitude is the whole thing in football. Every team has the talent and the coaching. Motivation makes the difference. The teams that… — Sid Gillman Copy Share Image
There are players associations in all the other major sports. If the UFC is going to continue to grow and be legitimate,… — Carlos Condit Copy Share Image
Hitting a golf ball correctly is the most sophisticated and complicated maneuver in all of sports, with the possible exception of eating… — Ray Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings,… — John Madden Copy Share Image
Pushing through when times get difficult, perseverance. It's an important trait to have as an athlete, and as a human being in… — Cooper Kupp Copy Share Image
I'm not satisfied. I'm still enjoying this. I still feel like I'm in the best part of my career and I can… — Eli Manning Copy Share Image
I believe it is no secret that I like Japan very much - Japanese culture, sport, including judo, but it will not… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The biggest challenges are in the same vein. It's about retaining all that stuff. Also, the physical stuff is not as easy… — Steven Yeun Copy Share Image
I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put… — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Sport is a passion and out of passion comes love. No point trying to work out why some become heroes and others… — Les Carlyon Copy Share Image
I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport.… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
“If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason.… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and… — Dick Fosbury Copy Share Image
“Never ever give up. You’re never too old to chase your dreams. And even if something looks like a solitary sport, it’s… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself. — Franz Stampfl Copy Share Image
If you're at the top of the game, you're earning money. But compared to other sports, like tennis, you're earning peanuts. — Judd Trump Copy Share Image
I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat,… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
“Individuals score points, but teams win games. In The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork, individuals will learn how to score more points… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I look forward to partnering with campus executives, administrators, coaches and student-athletes to enhance the intercollegiate athletics experience. — Oliver Luck Copy Share Image
I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear. When I took the 'Hellcats' job, I was like, 'Whoa, this is a sport.' — Ashley Tisdale Copy Share Image
From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game… — Tony Lema Copy Share Image
Love is like a game when we are not into it, but then it is like not a game when we don't… — Thanh Luu Copy Share Image
The players who don't look after themselves physically and mentally and enjoy the nights out a bit too much will suffer, the… — Neil Robertson Copy Share Image
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in… — Al McGuire Copy Share Image
There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part… — Jermain Defoe Copy Share Image
I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I've always had a passion to follow the development of new athletes and that's what I intend to continue doing. — Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Copy Share Image
This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump… — Al Arbour Copy Share Image
If someone starts talking about pride today I'm going to vomit... The Apache nation had pride and look where they are. The… — George Hook Copy Share Image
It's fascinating, isn't it, that whereas so many of our statues have been of military leaders, now it may well be sports… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I definitely like to stay active. Im a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play… — Brendan Dooling Copy Share Image
I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey. — Andy Roddick Copy Share Image
I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on… — Alan Parsons Copy Share Image
“Games as spectator sport - if snooker warrants televising, I fail to see why Super Monkey Ball or Ikaruga does not. Apparently” — James Newman Copy Share Image
