Sports Quotes · Page 125

Democracy is about electoral competition.

— Mehbooba Mufti

“Football is the poetry of a motion.”

— Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

Jet-skiing is my favorite water sport.

— Sharni Vinson

The women's game has come on leaps and bounds.

— Fallon Sherrock

That's part of the game. People go through slumps.

— Anthony Rendon

I've won in the game of life.

— Stephon Marbury

I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.

— Isaiah Mustafa

I'm not obsessed by football.

— Manuel Pellegrini

Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.

— John Skipper

Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio.

— Chick Hearn

I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.

— Verne Troyer

I'm addicted to my iPhone and get a game for it every few days.

— Todd Howard

Basketball is one of my favourite sports; I love playing it and watching it on TV.

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

As soon as you start focusing on the negative you're dead.

— Libbie Hickman

You have to have an international reference of competition. You have to go beyond your home.

— Carlos Slim

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

— Toni Duggan

I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run.…

— Steve Prefontaine

Drawing inspiration from minnows that have done well is an easy thing to say, but it doesn't work like that in sports.

— Eidur Gudjohnsen

Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and…

— Maggie Scarf

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

— Greg LeMond

We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been…

— Kenneth Oppel

As a young boy, I had the usual hobbies - sports, baseball cards, model airplanes and trains. But I always had a…

— Craig Sager

If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a…

— Berti Vogts

As a child, I could beat most kids in sprints, but overall, wrestling was the most natural sport for me. In fact,…

— Henry Paulson

I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if…

— John Legend

I have always been physically active. I grew up a tomboy and [was] into sports, so staying active is something that I…

— Tricia Helfer

“One of my favorite routines for keeping my rear in good form is to sit down on the floor and 'walk' across…

— Joan Crawford

We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than,…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Baseball doesn't seem very important on a day like this...When you live in the United States and you think it's the greatest…

— Gerry Hunsicker

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big…

— Lynn Redgrave

It takes a tremendous amount of skill to be a football player. And some of these guys have enough skills to do…

— Troy Polamalu

Tennis players are very fortunate that unlike some disciplines of sport, in mega-sporting events like the Grand Slams, they have a huge…

— Sania Mirza

Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

— Michael Wilbon

My kids are athletic, but they don't run.

— Jeff Fisher

I'll do whatever I can to promote the game.

— Eric Staal

I never get into the game of playing GM.

— Bradley Beal

My game from college has translated into the pros.

— Malcolm Brogdon

It was so easy to play tennis, so easy.

— Gabriela Sabatini

“Love should never be a game.”

— Sherry D. Ficklin

Perseverance is a great element of success.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow