Sports Quotes · Page 217

I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52.

— Dennis Haysbert

I'm locked in no matter what I'm doing. If it's a competition, I'm locked in.

— Patrick Beverley

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

— Thomas McGuane

I am a sport. And I don't have a chip on my shoulder.

— Lady Colin Campbell

The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.

— Thomas Hearns

I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.

— Gal Gadot

Music is not a sport - one is not better than the other. You just like what you like and get inspired.

— Orianthi

My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.

— Courtney Summers

As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never…

— Sheryl Swoopes

When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in tears because…

— Marisa Miller

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport,…

— Ernie Harwell

Football is a little bit different as far as lifting weights. We lifted weights every day. It's a different type of sport.…

— Kevin Knox

I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old…

— Diana Nyad

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in…

— Edward Kennedy

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

— Jerry Rice

Our obligation is to fight and compete in all of the competitions that we are in, we will all aim to do…

— Joao Cancelo

“Zoe, I-- Oh, God!" he shouted, clutching his chest and stumbling back. "What?" she asked, looking around anxiously as she clutched a…

— R.L. Mathewson

Doing something new and challenging. It can be anything from starting a business to playing a sport. Seeing a great concert, looking…

— Amber Valletta

Competitions are great. Unlike a lot of other creative industries they are a great way of climbing the ladder early on. If…

— Joe Lycett

When I got a letter from a college in eighth grade saying something about basketball - I think it might have even…

— Dawn Staley

I didn't even think about hiding anything - I honestly went into it [with the idea that] I'm going to show myself…

— Ashley Graham

I'm in a sport where people don't look at us like women: they don't look at us like being girls or feminine.…

— Michelle Carter

There are not many athletes who are out. And I think it's something that's important. It felt important to me. I guess…

— Megan Rapinoe

Baseball cannot be learned as a trade. It begins with the sport of the schoolboy, and though it may end in the…

— John Montgomery Ward

Losers give up when they're tired, but winners give up when they win.

— Anonymous

I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.

— John Kruk

Sport, like life, hardly gives you second chances, certainly not in a pandemic era.

— Abhinav Bindra

“She is playing games with someone who knows how to play them better.”

— Tarryn Fisher

Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.

— Suzanne Collins

My father didn't watch football, and it was my grandad who got me in to it.

— Loris Karius

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.

— Samuel P. Huntington

In college the comparisons were good, but now I'm an NFL player and I've got to make my own game.

— Brandin Cooks

God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball.

— Lance Berkman

The growth of the KHL is a very important aspect for the development of Russian sports.

— Alexander Ovechkin

When you compete with better athletes, you also get better.

— P. T. Usha

If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

— Pat Summitt

Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.

— Benjamin Bloom

That's why this game is so great. It's a game of failure.

— Alex Bregman

Motocross is a contact sport, see you in the first corner.

— Anonymous

Obviously, in WWE, everyone is on top of their game.

— Jinder Mahal