Sports Quotes · Page 178

Paula, your retirement is the one that every athlete dreams.

— Milagros Cabral

I would never describe football as a job because it doesn't feel like a job.

— Ivan Rakitic

In games, you have plans, you have strategies, and you follow them.

— Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

When you sign on the dotted line in any sport, your body's not going to be the same.

— Ken Griffey Jr

I'm lucky because I have an athlete between my legs.

— Willie Carson

If you want to get players to your game, it's hard to get them there at noon.

— Urban Meyer

I play football because I love the sport so much and for the sake of playing football.

— Stephan Lichtsteiner

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

— George J. Mitchell

I was six years old and I had major back surgery and that paralyzed me for three months. When my back got…

— Hornswoggle

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

— Magnus Carlsen

When you look at how the sports world is changing, you have to figure out how to become different than everyone else.

— Kevin Harvick

Everyone wants to be a world champion, but when you take that first punch it will tell you if you really want…

— Ricky Hatton

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting…

— Geoffrey Rush

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to…

— Nikki Giovanni

You can accomplish so much with a strong will. Just do your best, no matter what. Don't let negative thoughts creep in.…

— Rebecca Twigg

Hockey sport is for the white men, basketball is for the black men, golf is a sport for the white men who…

— Anonymous

Protect and facilitate a future, a safe future, for women and young girls to be whoever they want to be. And if…

— Leah Williamson

Why does it matter if the NBA has White Superstars? It shouldn't, but like everything else in America the White man's ice…

— Jason Johnson

Success breeds success and the more you are around a healthy and thriving athletics team, the more the people who only think…

— Denise Lewis

What's more important is, rather than looking at it from a commercial point of view, what we have to make sure is,…

— MS Dhoni

Some people are so talented and yet they don't even know it. There are so many different aspects to sport and how…

— Jazmin Carlin

It's always been such a big part of my life to be fit and healthy and be outside and run and play…

— Caroline Wozniacki

“Just as we tell women today to vote, in honour of the suffragettes who campaigned for the right to do so, we…

— Anna Kessel

Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea…

— Dan Ariely

I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.

— David Beckham

I have figured out it's not what you do on the field, it's how many games you play in.

— Eric Davis

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

— Kaitlin Olson

Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.

— Bobby Bonilla

You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.'

— Joaquin Andujar

I think the ultimate sign of an icon or legend in any sport is the ability to elevate their teammates.

— Jordan Burroughs

You can't be the best every game. Even Messi can have a bad game.

— Samir Nasri

Football is a game of errors. You want to make your rivals commit them and to avoid them yourself.

— Ernesto Valverde

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

— Michael Wilbon

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

— Brady Anderson

Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

— Stan Smith

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Success in the sport is, above all else, about enduring suffering.

— Chris McCormack

I've grown a lot in this sport. I've seen a lot. I've experienced a lot.

— Shawn Porter

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thus upon them.

— Anonymous

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

— Claudio Reyna