Sports Quotes · Page 192

I was a big kid and a big athlete, but let's be honest: I don't know diddly about football.

— Big Show

In sports and journeys men are knowne. [In sports and journeys men are known.]

— George Herbert

I like to think that I'm a family man first and a professional athlete second.

— Gordie Howe

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

— Bonnie Blair

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

— Nastia Liukin

Comedy and drama are like two different sports; they both require athleticism but they're different.

— Jimmy O. Yang

I think everyone needs competition in life, whether it be myself, you, the President.

— Charles Tillman

Football is a physical strenuous sport. These guys are running all of the time.

— Doug Pederson

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

— Anonymous

Who's on my radar? I don't have a radar. I always look at myself as a top athlete. They come after me.…

— Terence Crawford

My commitment to the Olympics is not a political commitment. It's not a commitment to any particular social system or cultural idea.…

— Herbert Hainer

You play football to enjoy the game and the manager wants to be happy on the sidelines watching unbelievable football.

— Ross Barkley

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points…

— Lewis Grizzard

Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.

— Michael Novak

Growing up as a kid in inner city of Baltimore, Maryland, the way I played the game, I used to always steal…

— Muggsy Bogues

Tennis in the U.S. isn't, like, that big of a sport, and now I have people, like, stopping me on the street…

— Coco Gauff

That's what's so cool about the sport. It's you and another human in there. All the mental game that goes into it.…

— Chad Mendes

Personal sacrifices are really the beginning and the end of everything, because you don't win because you do one thing right or…

— Susan Butcher

Warren Sapp, for example, is a direct result of John Randle having played the game. Some coach said, let's try this athletic…

— Jerome Bettis

It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write…

— Bernie Ecclestone

You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And…

— Magnus Scheving

Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running,…

— Francois-Henri Pinault

For some reason as a kid being a smart athlete didn't seem like the right thing, because you didn't fit in. You…

— Martellus Bennett

Football has always been a contact sport, and it's always going to be a violent sport, and there are going to be…

— Ed Reed

I don't buy books, ever... and I only tend to read the sports press.

— Roberto Carlos

Sports is part of the pop culture landscape in this country, just like music and television and movies.

— Rich Eisen

For sure, competition is healthy. It is! It keeps everybody on their toes. It keeps everybody sharp.

— Christian Cage

To achieve great things you have first to believe it.

— Arsene Wenger

Talking about and analyzing sports isn't the same as playing sports.

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

— Billie Jean King

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

— Bill Bowerman

We are professional athletes but we are laborers too.

— Jon Fitch

~ Life was never a game for it has no restart button. ~

— Vince

It is so boring when you have seven days without a game.

— Bernardo Silva

Football is like that: there's a new game every three days.

— Sergio Ramos

The young athletes are supposed to mature, to improve their personality.

— Rafael Nadal

That's one of the greatest parts of sports, seeing one guy propel his team to that winning moment.

— Justin Tucker

Basketball as a sport has brought me happiness, joy, education and a real sense of purpose.

— Patty Mills

Look, sports are sports. The scores are the scores and the stories are the stories.

— Michelle Beadle

Injuries are a part of the game. Every athlete knows that.

— Damian Lillard