Sports Quotes · Page 172

Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.

— Arie De Gues

When you want to win a competition you have to play all the best teams.

— Gervinho

I want to play. I hate watching practices and watching games. I want to be out there with the guys.

— Marvin Bagley III

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

— Seth Godin

If you win a game, everyone is happy, and if you lose, everyone is watching you.

— Ernesto Valverde

Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.

— Charles Shackleford

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

— Billy Graham

For me, if you play at Anfield, it is not a tactical game.

— James Milner

Winners see what they want. Losers see what they don't want. Don't let the game eat you; you eat the game.

— Moe Norman

I'm sure there are people in all sports that bend the rules but I'm not going to sit here and point the…

— B. J. Penn

I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends…

— Kara Lindsay

The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.

— D. B. Sweeney

I put so much pressure on myself to be perfect. Between homework and sports and drama and being social, I slept about…

— Allison Williams

Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up…

— Dan Jenkins

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

— Nigel Short

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you…

— Tommy Bolt

When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for…

— John Madden

Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine! Softball is amazing that way…

— Jennie Finch

Because of television, sports columnists have become personalities. I went to a party [during Super Bowl week] and there must have been…

— Woody Paige

Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure…

— Geoffrey Dutton

True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is…

— Reggie Jackson

For a generation that gets most of its information off a computer screen (be it Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter or what have…

— Leigh Steinberg

We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a…

— Duffy Daugherty

I would like to say boxing cannot compared with war. We have gloves on, we have cushions, we have referees, we have…

— Muhammad Ali

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

— Linford Christie

Tennis and golf offer much more visibility for apparel companies than team sports.

— Christopher Eubanks

Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.

— George Stephenson

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

— Abe Lemons

I think sports is a quest to find out what really is - not what perceptions are.

— Eddie Alvarez

I'm a purist, and I'm more a fighter than an athlete.

— B. J. Penn

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

— Duffy Daugherty

I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.

— Cassandra Clare

Like every Brazilian child, I always wanted to be a footballer.

— Ronaldo

It is so important that our federation stands by our athletes.

— Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.

— Caroline Ghosn

I believe that, deep down at heart, I'm a football player.

— Danny Amendola

I want to play every game of my career in an Astros uniform.

— Lance Berkman

Always stay in a happy medium in sport, because you never know what's around the corner.

— Nikita Parris

I know how the game works. You want to fight who you want to fight. And it never happens.

— Danny Garcia

Don't ask yourself what you did wrong; ask yourself what you did right.

— John Kessel