Sports Quotes · Page 199

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

— Michael Diamond

Golf is the greatest but most maddening sport there is.

— Darius Rucker

I want to stay involved in sports in one way or another.

— Ashley Wagner

I still have a lot of room for improvement. For example, I want to shoot equally well with both feet.

— Lionel Messi

I've been in this sport a long time, and this sport is based on your last performance.

— Dan Henderson

Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.

— Michel Patini

“In my opinion any activity during which you can enjoy a beverage is not a sport. It is a party.”

— Michael Thomas Ford

I wasn't really built for athleticism or speed, I always had to rely on my mind and my instincts.

— Jared Dudley

There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In…

— Vince Lombardi

It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

I think sport can play a really positive role in young girls' lives and be great to see as many of them…

— Ellyse Perry

I played sports because I think it's mandatory in the greater Boston area regardless of your aptitude. It's like, well, what else…

— Josh Gondelman

I'm a pro sports gambler. You have winning days and you have losing days. But you know if you've got the right…

— James Holzhauer

“Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game all right – I’ll admit…

— J.D. Salinger

The ultimate dream of an athlete is to compete in the Olympics. For us athletes, that is the zenith. There is nothing…

— Hima Das

My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that…

— Cara Castronuova

Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once…

— James Surowiecki

Nick Diaz is a champion so he's got the spirit that comes with it. So he's not going to give up mentally.…

— Georges St-Pierre

I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing…

— Johnny Weir

I'm a big proponent of playing all sports when you're growing up. I think they all help you from a competitiveness standpoint…

— Gordon Hayward

If you look at other countries, you see they have different values: defend more, pass the ball out more, winning is holy.…

— Johan Cruyff

That's what I'm tryin' to achieve. I want to be a heavyweight in this game, and I'm tryin' to get the big…

— Mannie Fresh

Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

By the nature of the sport and the danger we face daily, we are very close knit. Some of us have spent…

— Tony McCoy

I know what to do to go for it and just take the game in my hands.

— Angelique Kerber

“Did she go to Washington Redskins football games, or follow the Nats baseball team?”

— Ken Follett

'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

— Artie Lange

Every athlete wants to represent their country or region in the Olympics.

— Jackson Wang

I hope to have my players in good physical condition, all players, and then to face all competitions.

— Antonio Conte

I'm going to go out there and do what I do and play football, and everything will work out.

— Ezekiel Elliott

I can dribble with my right hand and I can dribble with my left hand. I'm amphibious.

— Charles Shackleford

I approach every game the same, just sometimes the shots will go in and sometimes they won't.

— Luka Doncic

If you can pick up a ground ball you'll play for any team you want.

— Marcus Holman

I took a couple footballs to the face before I learned to catch.

— Shaquem Griffin

You don't quit in sports. You retire. You don't get to quit. It's not an option.

— Herm Edwards

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

— Sid Waddell

The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.

— Natalie Coughlin

I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it.

— Percy Cerutty

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

— Whitey Herzog

I kept thinking my father would come back, But he never did.

— Alex Rodriguez