Sports Quotes · Page 711

No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.

— Brian Oldfield

“NBA is not exactly the friendliest environment for teaching selflessness. Even though the game itself is a five-person sport, the culture surrounding…

— Phil Jackson

I designed a sports car, the Cizeta-Moroder, with Marcello Gandini from Lamborghini; he did the Countach, of course. The Cizeta cost $600,000,…

— Giorgio Moroder

“You have to love what you do, to give your best.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Ultimately, we have got to make our sport more diverse if we want to be relevant in the future.

— Susie Wolff

The game's been good to me and I hope I've been good to the game. I'm 50 years old and I've pretty…

— Evander Holyfield

I used to love the election season'cause it's kind of fun. Everyone makes a big sport out of it with all these…

— Colin Quinn

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.

— Peter Jacobson

I am a huge sports fan. I grew up playing sports and I'm a huge [Arkansas] Razorbacks fan, but any sports personally.

— Kris Allen

Competition is only motivating if there is a prospect of winning.

— Varsha Sharma

When you've been around the game so much for so many years, it's just like it's a part of you.

— Paul Pierce

I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.

— Melanie Roach

I would say that one of the really special gifts about playing an athlete is that it's the best motivation you'll ever…

— Holt McCallany

The bulls like to flop a lot be aware of that

— Frank Vogel

I'm enjoying watching my kids grow and play sports. That's a ton of fun.

— Adam Vinatieri

Talent is natural. Excellence is choice.

— Anonymous

My parents were athletes; they met at a track meet: they were runners.

— Scott Speedman

Life is not about competition.

— Angad Bedi

Boxing is a sport, but it's also entertainment. I wanted to transcend the sport and be considered just not as a fighter,…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I have three kids, and I'm a coach for a lot of their sports, so I'm around them a lot, but I…

— Mike O'Malley

I miss the build-up to the games, the jolt of nervous energy that goes through your body before a match, walking out…

— Jermaine Jenas

Hype covers every surface of mass culture, and sports fans are intimately familiar with it - the heavy-breathing buildup that leads, inevitably,…

— Steve Rushin

I watch all sports in some shape or form. When you grow up in a small town, sports becomes a form of…

— Booger McFarland

A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat... His…

— Bill Bradley

[In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger…

— Jimmy Connors