Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be. — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick. — Ndamukong Suh Copy Share Image
I play basketball, and I'm grateful for what the sport has provided for me and my family, but I'm even more appreciative… — Patty Mills Copy Share Image
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
When you get off five or six months, and you're not competing as an athlete, you want to get back out on… — Rob Gronkowski Copy Share Image
When I tied the record five years in a row, even over in Europe, it wasn't really talked about. It is disap-pointing… — Pete Sampras Copy Share Image
When your two major sports, your two revenue sports, are going well, that bodes well for the whole university. — Tom Izzo Copy Share Image
A different type of human has to play that sport. Hockey players keep fighting - nobody cares what's wrong with you, as… — Davis Webb Copy Share Image
“Elite Performance Know your brain. Elite athletes know their bodies and train their bodies; elite mental athletes must know their brains and… — David Silverstein Copy Share Image
Roger Federer and my boyfriend, Tiger Woods, inspire me. It's incredible what they've done in their respective sports, especially Roger. He is… — Lindsey Vonn Copy Share Image
The Klutch Sports Group and the Lakers don't have an issue. Rich Paul and Rob Pelinka don't have an issue. LeBron James… — Rich Paul Copy Share Image
We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole… — Allen Iverson Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge was the cost to play the sport, and this is a challenge that my parents faced. They relied on… — P. K. Subban Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of times we're put in a box that people always say: 'Oh, sports and politics should stay… — Coco Gauff Copy Share Image
I think boxing is a singular sport, because the stakes are so high and because it just appeals to people's primal instincts.… — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
Like many athletes, I played in college for the chance to play in the pros. In the years since I retired, I've… — Pat Toomay Copy Share Image
It's nearly impossible to enforce actual consequences in video games at the moment, but at a table, sitting face-to-face across a tabletop… — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles. — Terry Orlick Copy Share Image
I have a hunger to grow and to learn, so coaching is a natural extension of a lifelong love of the game… — Karch Kiraly Copy Share Image
Americans are analytical in their sports, which are very stop-start, so the numbers tend to add up. That's why Moneyball works for… — Alan Pardew Copy Share Image
“True innovation and disruption happens outside of the accepted playing field, outside of the court, outside of the battleground. Disrupruption breaches the… — Tony Curl Copy Share Image
Cockfighting has always been my idea of a great sport -- two armed entrées battling to see who'll be dinner. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We just have to try to play ball. We go week-to-week trying to find ways to win games. That is what it… — Aaron Donald Copy Share Image
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of… — Howard Cosell Copy Share Image
I believe that investment in sports is investment in youth. And that, in turn, is investment in the future. — Naveen Patnaik Copy Share Image
He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether… — Sue Wicks Copy Share Image
Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I played basketball because I loved the game. I played because I was making a lot of friends around the world... It's… — Vlade Divac Copy Share Image
I'm enormously proud that I can do a deal with the National Women's Soccer League to showcase the power and passion of… — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
Confidence is everything. If you start second guessing yourself, you're bound to run into more bad outings — Trevor Hoffman Copy Share Image
Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success. — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
Who cares if your outfit is black and you're sporting a brown belt? Wear it, rock it, love it - and others… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I… — Ian Thorpe Copy Share Image
I don't like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional… — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
MMA is a full contact sport, a kind of an organized street fight, which uses both striking and grappling techniques and involves… — Raj Kundra Copy Share Image
I like going out on the practice court and training with my mates. But I don't know about fully engaging and giving… — Nick Kyrgios Copy Share Image
Unlike other sports, which are largely determined by individual athletic ability or team strength, NASCAR requires its competitors to cooperate in order… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
