Sports Quotes · Page 248

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

— Lou Holtz

You need to be consistent. Every game is important for you and your team.

— Nikola Jokic

Sometimes it's better for footballers to be occupied by something else.

— Rodri

I think my experience playing multiple sports kind of helps deal with a little bit of a bind.

— Stephen Gostkowski

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.

— Phil Linz

If you look at history of athletics in the country almost all champions have hailed from the villages.

— Milkha Singh

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

— Ben Hecht

I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.

— Shaun White

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

— Gerald McRaney

You realize as an athlete that there is a bit of a clock, and you don't want to look back on a…

— Pam Shriver

We're the home of America's pastime, America's Team, and now the largest participatory sport in America...bowling

— Jay Burres

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just…

— Pele

“The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn’t go our way,” he said. “There are always…

— Sheryl Sandberg

You're not going to be at the top of your game all the time. There's going to be times when you lose…

— Andre Drummond

I love parasailing, taking strolls, indulging in water sports, hanging out in touristy places - especially night markets.

— Sushmita Sen

Most people watch a game because they're excited about it; I'll sit there and watch lacrosse championships to try to find a…

— Elana Meyers

There were so many times she took us to sports or tried to be there for every event at school. How she…

— Tayshia Adams

When all you've done is work toward being a professional athlete, and then you injure yourself, and you know that you're going…

— Kylie Bunbury

“The notion that international competition – the battle between one arbitrary, bordered landmass and another – is not political, is a fatuous…

— Daniel Harris

I don't have to rely on my athletic abilities to get by. I actually understand the game. I know the game of…

— A. J. Green

What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw…

— V. S. Naipaul

I don't just get bogged down in, 'I want to win.' There's something even greater than that. And that's the way that…

— Matt Rhule

I think the biggest thing I can say to that is every female is different. Not that every man isn't, but speaking…

— Jessica Mendoza

I love The Miz. His approach to his job is second to none; it's extremely important to him that he prepares on…

— Alex Riley

The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.

— Jack Nicholson

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

— Douglas William Jerrold

I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.

— Rakul Preet Singh

I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

— Joan Didion

I didn't have any friends. I was bullied. I didn't play sports.

— Dacre Montgomery

I hope I inspire younger ones. Whatever you're into - sports, whatever - just go and do something.

— Barry Keoghan

Hockey was my favorite sport my whole life until I played football.

— Davis Webb

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

— Darrell Royal

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

— John Donne

It is a contact sport. Being tough is also part of the game.

— Marco van Basten

Athlete or not, I’m going to make sure you know how to read.

— David Lubar

The only exercise I get is playing sports because I hate the gym. I try to learn to love it.

— Paul Dano

Sports is expensive, and you have to find a way to pay for it.

— Mirai Nagasu

“The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine—until it wasn't.”

— Ron Suskind

When I'm playing in a close game, I'm out on the floor only trying to help the team win.

— Kristaps Porzingis