Sports Quotes · Page 244

There is no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown.

— William Shakespeare

Booze, broads and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?

— Harry Caray

Hard work beats talent, when talent does't work hard.

— Kevin Durant

Flash, take the game off. I'll go out and do the work.

— Shaquille O'Neal

“Don't focus on the competition, focus on ways to make yourself better.”

— Hopal Green

Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

— Dolores LaChapelle

In a tournament like the World Cup, you have got to be on top of your game every game.

— Ravi Shastri

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

— Leigh Steinberg

Chemistry kind of builds all season. It's not like we say, 'OK, it's game one, and now we've got our chemistry.' I…

— Nick Nurse

I'm not an athlete, and I'm not a gymnast, but I've always loved any type of sport and fitness, and I love…

— Candace Cameron Bure

Competition can never be eliminated from this industry. There is nothing wrong with it. It keeps you on your toes, making you…

— Sridevi

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my…

— Pat Summitt

I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer…

— Aaron Paul

Sports build good habits, confidence, and discipline. They make players into community leaders and teach them how to strive for a goal,…

— Julie Foudy

The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at…

— Chuck LaMar

Everyone thinks I'm this jock of a woman, but I didn't play any sports. I didn't even let my kids play baseball…

— Patti Hansen

I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets…

— Michael Weatherly

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I was afraid the teacher was going to make me read in front of class and I was going to look bad.…

— Bruce Jenner

Football, for me, is the most ever-changing sport in the world, because you can go seven games in a row, scoring in…

— Gonzalo Higuain

We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting…

— Cesar Chavez

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding…

— Arnold Palmer

To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people…

— Thomas Hardy

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

— Sasha Cohen

Cricket is the only game that you can actually put on weight when playing.

— Tommy Docherty

As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.

— Will Self

When I was young, all I wanted to do was play football.

— Gylfi Sigurdsson

Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.

— Paul Harvey

That's the great thing about this sport: it's always different.

— Alun Wyn Jones

It's the kind of game that makes you go home and beat your wife.

— Charles Barkley

A season is a season, regardless of the number of games.

— Joe Cronin

I don't know if I'm a good kickball player; I know I'm a good athlete.

— Ryan Lochte

As professional athletes, we're used to inspiring the next generation, people who are younger than us.

— Jason Collins

Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

— Sun Tzu

You play this sport in the mind, not only on the field.

— Javier Hernandez

Dont ever, no matter what, let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

— Anonymous

If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them.

— Yogi Berra

I try to enjoy my football, this is what I live for.

— Marko Arnautovic

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

— Cus D'Amato