Sports Quotes · Page 255

By showing myself being out with my dog or playing sports, it motivates people to get active.

— Mikhail Varshavski

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

— Cathy Rigby

My game is about being aggressive, and I'm not the same player if you take that away from me.

— Granit Xhaka

I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Accelerating, dribbling, and creating opportunities are the DNA of my game.

— Lucas Moura

I don't think this is an example of life and limb being at risk. I like the fact that our fans care.

— Carmen Policy

I've always been someone who said that football is a contact sport.

— Niko Kovac

Now I can give back and be a role model and an advocate for women in sport.

— Hilary Knight

Everybody knows the struggles I went through coming into my career with the free throws and how much work I put into…

— Andre Drummond

When I was a kid, we used to play 'Madden' and 'NCAA Football' all the time. I have two brothers, so we…

— Matt Cassel

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We…

— Lee Westwood

Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?

— Malcolm Gladwell

It's Test cricket, you have 5 days, you have time to get in and then score big. At the same time, you…

— Mayank Agarwal

You always see people coming back to the sport, and I've always thought, 'Gosh, when you're done playing, wouldn't you just want…

— Lindsay Davenport

A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the…

— Nolan Ryan

It's great to be Puerto Rican, because Puerto Rico loves boxing. They don't have a lot of major sports down there.

— Danny Garcia

The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making…

— Jeffrey Kluger

SportsCenter' is the legacy brand at ESPN, I had a great year doing the show. But it was not a fit for…

— Jemele Hill

Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake.…

— Simon Barnes

“The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind…

— Olympic Charter

Never before has a major professional sports team partnered in this way with a female-driven brand like Bumble. It's an honor to…

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

You know, some of the action stuff, I tend to have a pretty good sense of humor about it. Even when I…

— Dolph Lundgren

1. Stress improvement, not perfection (or winning). 2. Don't take yourself too seriously; laugh at yourself and have fun. 3. Set attainable…

— Dick Gould

Remember one thing about ESPN: People can be critical of them sometimes for being a large corporation but nine years ago I…

— Lee Corso

I'm a vet. I know the game and know how to play the game.

— Jason Pierre-Paul

We have the best Paralympic sport in the world because of the integration with the able-bodied tour.

— Dylan Alcott

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

— Mickey Mantle

A player can play their game. But I wont be the won they score

— Anonymous

I want to try and get better in every facet of the game.

— Ben Zobrist

I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.

— Maya Rudolph

If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.

— Bobby Unser

Tennis and golf offer much more visibility for apparel companies than team sports.

— Christopher Eubanks

Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.

— George Stephenson

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

— Abe Lemons

I think sports is a quest to find out what really is - not what perceptions are.

— Eddie Alvarez

I'm a purist, and I'm more a fighter than an athlete.

— B. J. Penn

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

— Duffy Daugherty

I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.

— Cassandra Clare

Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.

— Caroline Ghosn

It is so important that our federation stands by our athletes.

— Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce