Sports Quotes · Page 179

As the game gets bigger, it get bigger for the players.

— Michael Strahan

People still think I'm a bit of a buffoon - not really an athlete.

— Eddie the Eagle

One thing I get from competitive sports is that I am fiercely ambitious.

— Lexi Alexander

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.

— Orel Hershiser

Ideally, you want to play games, and you don't want to train every day without the matches.

— Patrick van Aanholt

I don't look at it as a man's sport because the women play as well. It's an open sport.

— Fallon Sherrock

I always believe that speed is the essence for any sport.

— P. T. Usha

IndyCar is what it is and in the back of our minds we all know it is a dangerous sport.

— Scott Dixon

I understand the NFL is a business. It's all about playing the game the way it was meant to be played. For…

— Nelson Agholor

Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never…

— Felix Baumgartner

I identify my humour quotient with that of my father's. He used to love British comedies. Also, when it comes to fitness,…

— Soha Ali Khan

Football is cool, basketball is cool - even baseball is cool. But playing quarterback - being on that field, hitting people -…

— Ben Shelton

Most athletes won't push a sport forward unless they have the incentive to do so - let alone when the structures of…

— Tara Lipinski

I keep getting these extraordinary letters, really weird ones from American sports stars - 'I've always thought you were one pretty lady…

— Elizabeth Hurley

Regarding wetsuits, I always liked the Marilyn Minter quote, 'Everything's better when wet,' injecting some style into sports utility,

— Cynthia Rowley

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost…

— Pat Conroy

I was as much at first probably against Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather as anyone else but... as soon as I turned…

— Mauro Ranallo

This isn't a competitive sport. Wrestling is not the NFL or the NHL. It's not really sports. It's entertainment. And in order…

— Eric Bischoff

Charlie and I discovered at a really young at that we had a passion for figure skating, and I think that passion…

— Meryl Davis

It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as…

— Jack Buck

I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always…

— Mahesh Bhupathi

Being skeptical is part of my job, to question every amazing achievement. That's always there. But I am also capable of turning…

— Travis Tygart

I try and work out as often as possible. Since I travel very often, it becomes very difficult to have a daily…

— Deepika Padukone

My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as…

— Elizabeth Streb

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

— Mia Hamm

I come in the game to help my teammates and protect the basket.

— Boban Marjanovic

At the end of the day, just got to go play football. That's all there is to it.

— Shaquill Griffin

We all know what it's like to have the ups and downs in this sport.

— Cub Swanson

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

— Steve Cauthen

The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.

— Bob Costas

We are all out here to play hard and try to win games.

— Jordan Poole

I dive into a sport just long enough to know what I'm doing and then do what I want to do.

— Travis Pastrana

All society wants from me is to sit down, shut up, go to training and play my sport.

— Liz Cambage

Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.

— Faraaz Kazi

The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.

— Sigmund Freud

You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.

— Reggie Jackson

Some sports teams hate each other in the locker room and that's what makes them great.

— Ira Kaplan

Boxing is a hard sport, I've been doing it for a long time since the age of 10.

— James DeGale

I had to put it on the line, but it was my Tour to win and mine to lose.

— Cadel Evans

I look at a lot of guys who stay with their teams a long time and it's a special thing in sports.

— Nikola Vucevic