Sports Quotes · Page 256

Like every Brazilian child, I always wanted to be a footballer.

— Ronaldo

I believe that, deep down at heart, I'm a football player.

— Danny Amendola

I know how the game works. You want to fight who you want to fight. And it never happens.

— Danny Garcia

I want to play every game of my career in an Astros uniform.

— Lance Berkman

Always stay in a happy medium in sport, because you never know what's around the corner.

— Nikita Parris

Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.

— Dan Heisman

Don't ask yourself what you did wrong; ask yourself what you did right.

— John Kessel

There are a lot of things I want to accomplish in this game. Winning is right there at the top.

— Alex Bregman

Some receivers are like sports cars: they have a lot of speed and flair. Me, I'm like an old pickup truck. I…

— Steve Largent

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're…

— Polly Horvath

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship,…

— Bill Bradley

When you work hard, it's definitely going to show. That's why with any athlete, we have struggles, and we have adversity, but…

— Derrick Henry

Obviously, I'm going to graduate college. So if sports don't work out, I'll have something to fall back on.

— Marquise Goodwin

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and…

— Scott Caan

Years before 'Tough Enough' came out - and I still have the papers - I filled out the entire application but never…

— Michelle McCool

My mother raised me very clearly that if you cross the street, you will die. If you go outside, you will die.…

— Nathan Englander

With sport went beer drinking and gambling - until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of…

— Donald Horne

When I was a kid, I just wanted to be outside. I didn't grow up watching football. Didn't ever watch a college…

— Carson Palmer

We all know the guy who sits at the end of the local bar telling the story of how he threw the…

— Don Panoz

I don't think you're ever there. You never arrive, but if you do, you might as well quit because you're already there.…

— Tiger Woods

“You stare down your opponent, lights twinkle, but you don’t blink. This is all you and that’s all him, and it ain’t…

— Jarod Kintz

I think there needs some attention to be paid to what sport is going to represent to young people: should it be…

— Gary Bettman

Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a…

— Megan McCafferty

Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that…

— Jim Brown

There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

— Hal Higdon

I would not be who I am if I were not putting pressure on me to up the level of my game…

— Alex Zanardi

You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

— Sparky Anderson

His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.

— Joe Frazier

“Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head.”

— Jonathan Franzen

Football is football. We are blessed to play a game for a living that we would play for free anyway.

— Antonio Rudiger

The Olympic Games showed us that with self-discipline and dedication we can be champions.

— Anurag Thakur

I'm not a big watch sports on TV guy unless it's football.

— Brian Urlacher

One of the worst things in sports is when selfishness gets disguised as truth.

— Jemele Hill

Support the athlete, encourage the team, help the coach. That's what good track parents do.

— Don Kardong

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

— Knute Rockne

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

— Casey Stengel

You're only as good as your opportunities in this game and you're lucky to get some opportunities.

— Stephen Gostkowski

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

— Lolo Jones

Nothing's in my head when I'm out there; I'm just trying to have fun on the football pitch.

— Aaron Ramsey

Golf is the greatest sport of all to see if you can handle pressure.

— Johnny Miller