Sports Quotes · Page 216

Life is not a game , some people need to understand that

— Spido

Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

— Kapil Sibal

Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth.

— Timothy Leary

I'm a competitive type of person, whether it's playing a game of basketball or playing business games.

— Chuck Feeney

Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.

— Don Meyer

I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

— Manu Bennett

If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.

— Ben Askren

I certainly could be wrong, but I don't believe God decides athletic competitions.

— Skip Bayless

The best part of any game is that we forget all that happens outside the field when we play, it is a…

— P. R. Sreejesh

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out…

— Mark McGwire

Respect the game on and off the field and if you do that, you're going to have the respect among your peers.

— Cody Bellinger

The majority of people pull for the underdog. Heck, even your friends don't like you to be too successful. We've lost enough…

— Darrell Royal

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

— Gary Lineker

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to…

— Drew Carey

What's fun on 'Here's The Rub' is how we were able to create and then thrust an original character into the world…

— Andrew Santino

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's…

— Carla Gugino

In the beginning, when I was first approached by M.L.S., my mother was not too fond of the idea of me playing…

— Jozy Altidore

I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was…

— Omari Hardwick

There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to…

— Jesse Owens

Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity.…

— Kathrine Switzer

Boxing is a science. You don't just walk into a gym and start punching. Fighters are born with differences in physical ability,…

— Eddie Futch

Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you…

— Marc Blucas

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences.…

— Epictetus

For sure, with golf it's not a physically demanding sport like tennis. That's what makes tennis great - you combine both things.…

— Rafael Nadal

There are multiple things you can do during a basketball game to help your team be successful.

— Austin Reaves

I ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me.

— Bear Bryant

I'm a huge wrestling video game fan. I grew up on wrestling video games.

— Johnny Gargano

I take a laid-back approach to a lot of things in life and, at the end of the day, rugby's just a…

— Beauden Barrett

The sad thing is that I know no athletes' names. I am not a sports girl at all.

— Clara Mamet

Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn.

— Pat Dye

I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.

— Elizabeth Hurley

My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.

— Ashley Tisdale

No matter the game, no matter the time of year, I want to be out there and finish the game.

— Alex Caruso

It's 2015, and I'm the first female coach in any of the major sports. That's ridiculous!

— Becky Hammon

Boxing is a lonely sport and when you lose it's hard to take and it's hard to get over.

— Carl Frampton

“Sorry! But I'm not a game played when ever you want to play it!”

— Gina Karablieh

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

— Brian Tracy

Beating someone in a video game when you were just pressing random buttons the whole time.

— Anonymous

I always wanted to be a professional athlete and really did not necessarily care which sport.

— Mardy Fish

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

— Henry Ford