Sports Quotes · Page 269

They say that sports saves lives, and I'm proof of it.

— Alex Pereira

Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness.

— Gregg Popovich

We had no interest in making a traditional sports movie.

— Ryan Fleck

The Olympics should be the best against the best in every sport.

— Justin Rose

I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.

— Seal

Attitude is an inner concept. It is the most important thing you can develop in your life.

— Wayne Dyer

To be sure of winning, invent your own game, and never tell any other player the rules.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

That's the name of the game: preventing runs and scoring runs.

— Tommy Pham

To show weakness, we're told in sports, is to deserve shame. But showing weakness, addressing your mental health, is strength.

— Mardy Fish

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Tennis has given me so many opportunities, and I feel very lucky to have achieved whatever I have, especially coming from a…

— Ana Ivanovic

I hope that my 'Jeopardy' run helps destigmatize sports betting because I have certainly dealt with some stigmas.

— James Holzhauer

If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot…

— Dan Castellaneta

Besides music, I was all school, school, school. And softball. I played the game since I was four, and I wanted to…

— Dawn Richard

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it…

— George Bernard Shaw

The peacocking nature of baseball players and athletes in general - you're all kinda competing for who's got the most swagger.

— Glen Powell

Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do…

— Kurt Angle

Records are the only thing that remain of an athlete, the only thing that people will remember. If I want to ensure…

— Lindsey Vonn

Golf is the only-est sport. You're completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself. Golf brings out your assets and liabilities…

— Hale Irwin

Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have…

— Brock Yates

China is a sleeping giant if you just take a look at their experience regarding all kinds of sport, not football though,…

— Berti Vogts

“Right from the beginning, I have been a Tiger fan and nothing else,” Max Lapides said this summer. “Other men can happily…

— Roger Angell

Honestly my style sense, I guess, started in high school when I was a volleyball player. That was just what I wore:…

— Gigi Hadid

A lot of athletes go from not making any money at all to make any large pot of money. Then they get…

— Bobby Wagner

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

— Gregg Easterbrook

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

— Larry King

Golf is the only sport where watching the game is arguably as grueling physically as playing it.

— Willie Geist

Now, games have been democratized. Everyone plays games.

— Chris DeWolfe

Athletes are some of the most insecure people on the planet.

— Chris Hoy

The Olympic Games and the World Championships will be my big goals.

— Remco Evenepoel

At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.

— Josh Duhamel

“I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood.”

— Frank Rich

“I don´t complain about playing time. My job is to do so well the coach can´t sit me.”

— Shane Battier

One of my true dreams is to do a sports talk radio show and take calls.

— Joshua Morrow

Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.

— Mark Frost

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

— Curt Schilling

It's football. I get hit all the time. That's what you sign up for when you play the game.

— George Kittle

Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.

— Anonymous

I think there's a ton of carryover with the two sports, lacrosse and football.

— Chris Hogan

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.

— Ron Bolton