Sports Quotes · Page 196

It's an enjoyable sport; we all love to play the game, and fans love to support it.

— Kyle Walker

Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.

— Cathy Freeman

I really didn't have one particular athlete I liked growing up.

— Masahiro Tanaka

All sorts of famous sports people have been suspended for extended periods.

— Frank Deford

Everything is social media nowadays, everything is sports and entertainment.

— Sonya Deville

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

— Carl Lewis

My job is to improve the performance of the team game by game.

— Luis Enrique

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

— Malcolm Gladwell

My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.

— Rita Rudner

I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the…

— Barry Sanders

I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions.

— Sebastian Coe

All life is a struggle… Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will…

— Samuel Smiles

I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.

— Valentino Rossi

“you are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who…

— Rosemary Rawlins

I'm someone who really thinks the game through, who has an IQ about the game, who studies the game, who knows a…

— Grayson Allen

Wherever I go and whoever I go play for, I'm a football player. I enjoy playing football, I enjoy the game, I…

— Chris Long

The NFL is the only sport where you can be on a team five years, and your contract's not guaranteed. You can…

— Antonio Brown

It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I…

— Ted Williams

Fear is like fire. You can make it work for you: it can warm you in the winter, cook your food when…

— Cus D'Amato

I actually started playing drums because my older brother did and I grew up always wanting to impress my big brothers so…

— Jen Ledger

There's a theory of accidents that I studied when I was making a film about nuclear weapons: you can never eliminate accidents,…

— Lucy Walker

Athletes vs Cancer is a foundation that I started in 2008 after I lost my mom to cancer in 2007, and our…

— Matt Barnes

“Jerry Seinfeld once remarked that today’s athletes churn through the rosters of sports teams so rapidly that a fan can no longer…

— Steven Pinker

Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to…

— Greg van Eekhout

Playing in a big tournament is one of the biggest things for a professional footballer.

— Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

What I've learned about athletes is they're very into other athletes.

— Jessica Pegula

The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.

— Zora Neale Hurston

I am like the huge percentage of Indians who follow majorly cricket when it comes to sports.

— Nikita Dutta

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.

— David Millar

“I like to play this game. I made it up myself, but I play it only once a year.”

— Sandra Cunha

I love the game of basketball. I want to get better, I want to improve.

— Julius Randle

It's just in your nature when you're an athlete to be competitive in everything.

— Tecia Torres

I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does.

— Jerry West

I'm more than blessed to be able to play a PE sport for money.

— Blake Griffin

I'll do whatever I need to do to bring more athletes to the sport.

— Elana Meyers

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.

— William Benton Clulow

We want to play the biggest games and fight for the biggest trophies.

— Martin Odegaard

I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.

— Jordan Burroughs

It is a physical game here in England, but I can cope with it.

— Robinho

Now your in his game cause you let him be the player.

— Anonymous