Sports Quotes · Page 212

I like a few vintage Rolexes, and Panerais are good. I'm not into sports watches - I like chronometers.

— Jason Statham

We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

— Casey Stengel

Nobody goes into a sport saying, I want to be the fourth-best person. We all want to be No. 1.

— Mary Cain

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

— Marcus Samuelsson

I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.

— Vince Carter

Getting the balance right in everything is all of football and all of sport.

— Roy Hodgson

McGregor has no respect for the sport, for the person. That's it. He's not good for the sport.

— Jose Aldo

Every game is mentally and physically tough but we get through it and it makes you stronger.

— Simon Mignolet

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second…

— Anonymous

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just…

— Beth Brooke

I've always had a great interest in sports that embody the values of commitment, hard work and teamwork - all values I…

— Giorgio Armani

There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it -…

— Rene Maheu

It's in all of our interests to keep pushing athletes to see the big picture, and that's sometimes very difficult.

— Anne Donovan

I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts…

— Roger Federer

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and disregard of all the…

— George Orwell

“Winning means so much, and not winning always mentally frustrates and then pushes me physically to be a BEAST all summer.I LOVE…

— Jon-Robert Holden

You can't have Gomer Pyle any more driving a race car, Those days are over. You've got to have somebody that at…

— Felix Sabates

The only place where we're not segregated in mass is in sports. You go to a football stadium or a basketball arena,…

— Jason Whitlock

It is the most powerful submission in the sport. It is a beautiful thing. You're holding them into you, their back is…

— Conor McGregor

I love the competition, and if I can continue to compete and give myself a chance to win tournaments, I'll still play…

— Tom Watson

I would just say that I could share what served me, which was trying to find the best material that I could…

— Dwayne Johnson

The people we talk about around water cooler at work or at school, they're all the people who are visible in our…

— Crowder

In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and…

— Robert Anasi

Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up…

— Ronald J. Sider

I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.

— Landon Donovan

We weren't trying to walk him; he just wouldn't swing at any bad pitches.

— Bobby Cox

I think the worst thing that's happened to sports is 'sources say.'

— Blake Griffin

I don't eat as much as an athlete should. I just don't like it.

— Johnny Weir

Yes, I came into this sport as just a grappler, but the more I learn, the more it shines in my fights.

— Kamaru Usman

I know netball is the number one female sport in Australia, but hockey also offers a lot.

— Casey Eastham

For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.

— Dean Karnazes

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

— Muhammad Ali

Life is but a game for the rich and a battle for the poor.

— Jeremy Limn

God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own.

— Ted Williams

I feel like a coach when I'm on the court. I just see basketball as a team sport.

— Jose Calderon

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

— Alex Ferguson

Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that

— Jan Garavaglia

When someone truly is into you, there's no competition.

— Anonymous

There's a certain Englishness about the English game

— Mike Parry

Any situation in the game when you have the ball you can see there are good opportunities.

— Adama Traore