Sports Quotes · Page 161

I thought I was going to be a footballer or a boxer or something like that - I was into sports.

— Barry Keoghan

The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition

— W. Chan Kim

Product 1' was really my introduction into the game.

— August Alsina

All I want to do is play. I love the game. I want to show everyone what I can do.

— Oliver Burke

I approach football like a street-ball game, like I'm playing with the fellas in the yard.

— Simeon Rice

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

— Alistair Cooke

Carl Pendleton's the absolute best. He's everything you want in a student-athlete.

— Bob Stoops

Running is a simple sport. You don't need all the zoopy zoopy.

— Bill Squires

I think that sometimes you just have off years. That's just part of major sports. You have off years, and it happens.

— Denny Hamlin

Let us celebrate the transformative power of sports and its unique ability to instill intuition, conviction, and courage into women and girls…

— Laphonza Butler

Going to Weston opened my eyes. There was a lot of physical contact. I was used to youth-team games and reserve-team games.

— Ollie Watkins

I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit…

— Harbhajan Singh

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'

— Arsene Wenger

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for…

— Paul Robeson

All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only…

— Meyer Lansky

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to…

— Billie Jean King

I'm signing on to be an athlete, and it's almost like Karl Marx's theory on capitalism. I am both the worker and…

— Lawrence Jackson

I actually don't prepare for onscreen nudity. I really believe that you have to be comfortable with your own body and unless…

— Stacy Martin

The main thing is media attention which is good publicity for the sport. As I'm the only women in this championship I…

— Liz Halliday

I always felt that I had a mission in life. I thought I was born to play sports. Even now, I still…

— Monte Irvin

As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout…

— Don Yaeger

I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in…

— Norm MacDonald

The black man's journey within the genre of grappling wasn't unlike the challenges their brethren faced in professional sports, entertainment and, most…

— Jim Ross

All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook,…

— William Cowper Prime

They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it.

— Jimmy Hill

United is always a massive game that you want to win.

— Phil Foden

Play every game as if it were going to be the game breaker.

— Vikrant Parsai

I'm not a big fan of the Olympic Games. The ATP calendar is a bit complex due to the Olympic event.

— Dominic Thiem

You won't find me in a sports bra and low-slung leggings.

— Mary Helen Bowers

Life may not be a spectator sport but many spend time watching it go by.

— Vikrant Parsai

Miesha is a great athlete, really tough. I know that.

— Amanda Nunes

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

— Rex Stout

In England, there are some great teams, the style of play is great and so is the competition.

— Hulk

There is no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown.

— William Shakespeare

Booze, broads and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?

— Harry Caray

“Don't focus on the competition, focus on ways to make yourself better.”

— Hopal Green

Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

— Dolores LaChapelle

Flash, take the game off. I'll go out and do the work.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Hard work beats talent, when talent does't work hard.

— Kevin Durant

In a tournament like the World Cup, you have got to be on top of your game every game.

— Ravi Shastri