Sports Quotes · Page 259

Booing - I never like it. We see it in other sports all the time, but in tennis, it's rare.

— Alexander Zverev

Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.

— Magic Johnson

I'm a professional athlete, I'm a businesswoman and I know who I am.

— Joanna Jedrzejczyk

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

— Walt Disney

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

— Anonymous

Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.

— Shaun White

People used to say sports and politics are different, but now it is the opposite.

— Antonio Inoki

I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.

— Bobby Layne

It's an individual sport, but it's far from that backstage. You've got so many people working so that I can go out…

— Vicente Luque

Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating... yet so joyous.

— Ken Green

We grew up with my family being very passionate about two sports, American football and British football.

— Joel Glazer

Leaving the sports entertainment style of WWE to go to the hard hitting and strong style of New Japan was a very…

— Montel Vontavious Porter

The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

— Saadi

Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening…

— M. Russell Ballard

You have competition throughout your whole life, and it only makes you better. That competitive edge gives you extra motivation.

— Danny Welbeck

I was an athlete in college, and Wall Street likes athletes because they're very competitive people that are willing to do anything…

— Michelle Wolf

I've got some great stuff in my sports memorabilia collection. But my favorite thing by far is the robe. I actually have…

— Darius Rucker

I'm an outdoor person. You'll always see me outdoors - mountain biking, going to the park, going outside throwing the football. I…

— Brittney Griner

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30;…

— Michael Phelps

The game of football really is more cerebral than most people think. To be successful, it takes more than just strength and…

— Ray Rice

Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don't pray to make…

— James Carville

I've been engulfed in sports since I was a 2-year-old; I picked up any kind of ball - a basketball, baseball, football…

— Freddie Gibbs

Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put…

— Ron Currie Jr

I think that it is interesting in sports, people love to see that hero-slash-villain aspect and in no way am I thinking…

— Ben Shelton

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

— Katarina Witt

My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar.

— Melissa Rauch

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

— Ice Cube

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

— Anonymous

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global…

— Yoshiro Mori

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

— Willie Stargell

With my mom's and my dad's genes, me and my brother excelled in a lot of sports.

— Trinity Rodman

Ever since I was six or seven, I wanted to be a professional footballer.

— Romelu Lukaku

“The first is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.”

— Peggy Fleming

Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad.

— Robin Williams

As you get going in the game you just kind of go along and you play the game.

— Matt Cassel

Mental health is not a very easy thing to talk about in sports. It's not perceived as very masculine.

— Mardy Fish

I like music, I like boxing, I like watching football.

— Wade Barrett

You learn early in athletics that you'll have ups and downs.

— Ara Parseghian

To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams... This is success!

— Sasha Azevedo

When you go up against the best of the best, you're ready for any type of competition.

— Frank Gore