Sports Quotes · Page 220

Football is a funny game. Today, you are zero; tomorrow, you are a hero.

— Emmanuel Adebayor

I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.

— Jeff Lindsay

I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.

— Michel Gondry

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

— Kevin Kelly

When you have a concept and a sport like this, you have to have a vision.

— Dana White

I think we live in a very competitive world, and I love competition.

— Arsene Wenger

I don't mind showboating. Sports are supposed to be fun.

— Ariel Helwani

Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that.

— Dante Hall

I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I…

— John Green

Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.

— Adolf Galland

I know it sounds selfish, wanting to do something no one else has done. But that's what you're out here for -…

— Jack Nicklaus

When the Japanese occupied Korea in the early 20th century, they brought their passion for baseball with them, and the game swiftly…

— Mina Kimes

As I think back years later as to what a Game 7 is, what stands out most is how unpredictable it is,…

— Gabe Kapler

I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice…

— Chris Hedges

I don't have concussion problems. I have got a problem with people giving me traumatic blows to the head, that's what I…

— Dean McAmmond

My first five years, I missed a ton of games. I had elbow surgery twice; I had wrist surgery, knee surgery.

— Mike Fisher

We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the…

— Monte Irvin

As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that…

— John Bingham

I try to think about positive things - how great my form is, how my arms are swinging, my breathing, how loud…

— Kara Goucher

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been…

— Bobby Orr

Pro Football Hall of Famer is something that everyone recognizes as the pinnacle of any achievement in sport. All the fame and…

— John Riggins

“You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better…

— Criss Jami

The entire existence of the NFL - and of football at any level, for all of that - rests on whether or…

— Charlie Pierce

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant…

— Martina Navratilova

We need to wake up to idea that you cannot treat sport on equal terms with other parts of the economy.

— Frans Timmermans

“The real sports of the Hunger Games is watching the tributes kill one another”

— Suzanne Collins

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

— Anne Bancroft

I played football with my whole body - My hands, my head, my face. I did it all.

— Earl Campbell

I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.

— Stephen Moyer

This is so surreal!! I am so excited to say that I am a 2012 Olympian!! I'm going to London!!!

— Gabrielle Douglas

The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.

— Woody Hayes

As I see it, Seedorf and I are coaches who handle the concept of a more proactive game.

— Rafael Benitez

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

— Knute Rockne

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.

— Ruud Gullit

A coach must sometimes see players with his heart, and hear them with his eyes.

— John Kessel

I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!

— Miguel Syjuco

This sport is so tough and fighters start out with the same goal but very, very few get to achieve it.

— Callum Smith

You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.

— Cam Newton

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

— Lou Holtz