Sports Quotes · Page 167

Win or go home. That's what you play for. That's what we love. We love this type of game.

— Jaren Jackson, Jr

When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Honestly, I don't play basketball games. I'm more into fighting games like 'Mortal Kombat' or RPGs.

— Rasheed Wallace

If you cut corners you just keep on going in circles.

— Grant Stoelwinder

I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.

— Jim McKay

I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.

— Michael Jordan

My dream is to have a medal from the Olympic Games, and I will do my best to have it.

— Petra Kvitova

Tennis is like marrying for money. Love has nothing to do with it.

— Phyllis Diller

Football has that wonderful gift of being accessible. You don't need much gear, a coach, or a lifeguard. You just need your…

— Wangechi Mutu

The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we've done a good job of…

— Cat Osterman

I won the biggest amateur contest when I was 10, and I was into X Games the next year. And then I…

— Nyjah Huston

'30 for 30s' are amazing. They're little documentaries and can be anywhere from half an hour to an hour-and-a-half - great sports stories.

— James Wolk

I was a Division I college athlete, and I grew up with five brothers and two sisters. I've always been a competitor.

— Cathy Engelbert

My favourite spectator sport is watching people who should know better searching for something, and often claiming to find it, where it…

— Julie Burchill

“Lucia opened the door. "They say not to discuss politics and religion on the first date." “Well, then.” I gave her a…

— Jennifer Lane

“boys into sports programs where they’re expected to behave like seasoned professionals. It’s not tying your love and acceptance”

— Kevin Leman

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34,…

— John Irving

I like rugby - I watch it from time to time. It's basically football without pads but probably a little bit more…

— Reggie Bush

I made an executive decision in college when I learned how behind I was in the world of books, films, and music…

— Nick Offerman

My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The…

— Jonathan Brown

There are a whole bunch of people - Republicans or sports fans or reality TV fans - who probably would never have…

— Jill Soloway

Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws…

— Dan Millman

I think, in general, the sport's frustrating because I think it's one of only a few sports in the world where you've…

— Daniel Ricciardo

I was obviously blessed with athletic ability but my talent is to compete. That's why, in the big games, I've always been…

— Owen Hargreaves

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

— Elbert Hubbard

Nothing dramatic can be expected from the Sports Code, because the Olympic Charter has to be respected.

— Abhinav Bindra

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

— George Carlin

The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle.

— Bob Varsha

If you don't have ambitions then you're not a football player.

— Patrick van Aanholt

It's hard for a player to plan for the future, especially in a game like football.

— Sunil Chhetri

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

— Tim McCarver

When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.

— Leo Durocher

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

— Brian Clough

You played me. Betrayed me. Your love was nothing but a game

— Wendy's

I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport.

— Tim Robbins

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

— Michael Johnson

I went to five Olympic Games and my favorite is Sydney.

— Abhinav Bindra

I like watching sports, you know, all sorts of stuff.

— David Gilmour

Competition is getting ahead of others. Confidence is being totally behind yourself.

— Melchor Lim

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

— Horace