Sports Quotes · Page 211

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

— Brooks Robinson

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

— Duffy Daugherty

For some reason, when I drive a sports car everything becomes sexy.

— Keeley Hazell

Knowledge comes from your instructors; wisdom comes from within.

— Dan Inosanto

Music is not a spectator sport, you have to be involved - fully involved - or you get left behind.

— Sixto Rodriguez

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.

— Mike Penner

I wanted to represent African-American athletes in a better way than what I saw when I grew up.

— Ahmad Rashad

I get to play a game that I love and I'm going to make the most of it.

— Marcus Mariota

Interest in a sport peaks during its championship season. That's when even casual observers turn on their television sets, and lifelong fans…

— Thomas Hauser

I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to…

— Michael Phelps

In this sport, in this life, I think heart takes you a lot further than skill and technique... Just digging down deep…

— Clay Guida

Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know…

— Apolo Ohno

The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other…

— Betty Furness

I missed years of birthdays, celebrations and simple moments, so I'm enjoying being able to be more present, now I'm a washed-up…

— Dylan Alcott

It's a team game, but at the end of the day, you gotta be happy, and you gotta enjoy playing football every…

— Chris Long

Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the…

— Anonymous

There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because…

— Raymond Pettibon

Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it…

— John Milton

We've tried to create something that's much more like being at a mountain resort. Many of these types of facilities done in…

— Phil Taylor

Do the best work you can do and try not to worry about the fact that you are a woman covering the…

— Megan Alexander

“Rowing is perhaps the toughest of sports. Once the race starts, there are no time-outs, no substitutions. It calls upon the limits…

— Daniel James Brown

Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I…

— Mike Piazza

Nerd. Geek. Used to be if you self-identified that way, you'd get thrown into a locker and never have sex. Or worse,…

— Olivia Munn

I never got into MMA to be famous, I got into it to compete and pursue athletic aspirations. They were my pure…

— Matt Lindland

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

— Emma Donoghue

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am a football man and this and my family are my focus.

— Paolo di Canio

ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News.

— Rupert Murdoch

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.

— Wayne Dyer

I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.

— SZA

Retail is about change. It's challenging and fast-paced. It's a team sport.

— Doug McMillon

No one likes high school and college sports more than I do.

— Tate Reeves

Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

— Durwood Merrill

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

— Gerald R. Ford

Tennis is a running game, not a hitting game - it's not golf.

— Mats Wilander

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

— Jim Sensenbrenner

Anytime that you're getting games in, you're going to get better.

— Becky Sauerbrunn

There are really smart baseball players. It's a thinking person's game.

— Richard Linklater

I'm one of those athletes, I compete better for coaches that I have a lot of love and respect for.

— Rashad Evans

It's cool because football, as much as it gives, it takes away a lot, too.

— Calvin Johnson