Sports Quotes · Page 169

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

— Doc Rivers

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

— Bill Shoemaker

I'm a big watcher of sports, consumer of sports content, so I love documentaries; I love the format.

— Peter Billingsley

At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages.

— Lloyd Dorfman

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

— Pierre de Coubertin

I was an average student, who took active interest in athletics.

— Akshaye Khanna

Booing - I never like it. We see it in other sports all the time, but in tennis, it's rare.

— Alexander Zverev

Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.

— Magic Johnson

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he…

— January Jones

In short, it's a great economy if you're a high-level corporate executive or someone who owns a lot of stock. For most…

— Paul Krugman

I've grown up in a small town, and I played a lot of sports, so it was always between music and sports.…

— Brynn Cartelli

What we call endurance sport today, we've been doing for centuries with pilgrimages, walking across the earth towards some goal, which is…

— Milind Soman

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I…

— Callie Khouri

My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box…

— Firoozeh Dumas

I'm so good at hiding my feelings, like if it was a sport I would be MVP with a championship ring and…

— Anonymous

I bought my wife Leighanne a silver BMW Z8 sports car one Christmas and tied it up with a big red bow…

— Brian Littrell

College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more…

— H. L. Mencken

Football is the ultimate team sport. You're dependent on 10 other people on the field to have success on a particular play…

— John David Washington

I am a nerd about this sport. I know guys' records, who they fought, how they win, who they're married to, where…

— Michael Chiesa

If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity. If there's no relationship with nature then you become a killer;…

— Anonymous

I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated.…

— Mike Piazza

The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in…

— Duncan Green

I have observed that, generally speaking, network sports announcers did not tend to live to a ripe old age. On the other…

— Lindsey Nelson

I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in…

— Mark Waters

I'm a professional athlete, I'm a businesswoman and I know who I am.

— Joanna Jedrzejczyk

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

— Walt Disney

Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.

— Shaun White

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

— Anonymous

People used to say sports and politics are different, but now it is the opposite.

— Antonio Inoki

I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.

— Bobby Layne

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

— Katarina Witt

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

— Ice Cube

My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar.

— Melissa Rauch

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

— Anonymous

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global…

— Yoshiro Mori

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

— Willie Stargell

With my mom's and my dad's genes, me and my brother excelled in a lot of sports.

— Trinity Rodman

Ever since I was six or seven, I wanted to be a professional footballer.

— Romelu Lukaku

Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad.

— Robin Williams

“The first is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.”

— Peggy Fleming