Sports Quotes · Page 251

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

— Claudio Reyna

I don't look at it as a man's sport because the women play as well. It's an open sport.

— Fallon Sherrock

Ideally, you want to play games, and you don't want to train every day without the matches.

— Patrick van Aanholt

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.

— Orel Hershiser

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

— Mia Hamm

IndyCar is what it is and in the back of our minds we all know it is a dangerous sport.

— Scott Dixon

I always believe that speed is the essence for any sport.

— P. T. Usha

I come in the game to help my teammates and protect the basket.

— Boban Marjanovic

Champions are not always the best at what they do. They're the ones who work hardest & persevere when it was time…

— T Jay Taylor

Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.

— Nelson Mandela

I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things…

— Carlos Delgado

“We devote ourselves to sports because they remind us of how small we are just as much as they make us bigger.”

— Fredrik Backman

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the…

— Joe Garagiola

Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited…

— Ellen Goodman

I want to enjoy the games because not a lot of people have the chance to do what we do. That's how…

— Virgil van Dijk

If you're a competitor, this is what you want. You want all of the games to have meaning, context and to be…

— Erik Spoelstra

I feel like in New York, we could of course open up more bike lanes, but I think it's even more important…

— Mary Cain

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to…

— Joe Namath

Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner…

— Adam Silver

What you want to see [in Formula One] is a highly competitive sport - and the more equal it is the more…

— Martin Sorrell

I know in college, a player is playing for something every year so it is constantly competitive while in residency although you're…

— Steve Purdy

I love movies, of course. 'Terminator 3' and 'Bad Boys II' - lots of action. Sports movies, action movies, comedies - I'll…

— Sergio Garcia

My dad had always encouraged me to play basketball, he didn't push me too much at first - he wanted me to…

— A'ja Wilson

Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the…

— Barry Lyga

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

— Steve Cauthen

At the end of the day, just got to go play football. That's all there is to it.

— Shaquill Griffin

We all know what it's like to have the ups and downs in this sport.

— Cub Swanson

The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.

— Bob Costas

All society wants from me is to sit down, shut up, go to training and play my sport.

— Liz Cambage

I dive into a sport just long enough to know what I'm doing and then do what I want to do.

— Travis Pastrana

We are all out here to play hard and try to win games.

— Jordan Poole

The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.

— Sigmund Freud

Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.

— Faraaz Kazi

You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.

— Reggie Jackson

Some sports teams hate each other in the locker room and that's what makes them great.

— Ira Kaplan

This is a selfish sport. I'm going out there and winning for myself.

— T.J. Dillashaw

If your talking to someone or in a relationship there should be no competition whats so eva..

— Kevin McCarty

In any other sport, if you miss the catch all you lose is the ball.

— Leah

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

— Jayson Williams

When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

— Ellen Hopkins