Sports Quotes · Page 272

Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.

— Dana Hussein

Coming from the sports world, I'm interested in the secrets of team culture and chemistry.

— Harrison Barnes

I love competition, it is so much fun and motivating.

— Ananya Panday

“Football is a game of inches and inches make the champion”

— Vince Lombardi

I watch all my goals before every game on the coach.

— Daniel Sturridge

I genuinely love this sport and most of the guys who compete in it.

— Dana White

I want to be the greatest to ever play the game of basketball.

— Marvin Bagley III

I love the military, of course, but it wasn't my thing. Sports was my thing.

— Kevin Knox

The national attention just motivates me to play harder. You got to win some games and win some big games.

— Dillon Brooks

In all kinds of sports, you have to get the confidence going within before you can start proving people wrong or right.

— AB de Villiers

If you're playing football and you're not playing to be the best - no matter what you do, if you don't want…

— Mark Ingram II

I love the sport, I love getting other drivers' helmets and collecting some of the things that are special to me.

— Michael Waltrip

In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting…

— Gary Lineker

Completing my degree in Sports Development at Liverpool's John Moores University while being full-time at Manchester City is one of my greatest…

— Nikita Parris

“The Olympics.  He knew well the allure of the Games having been there three times.  Wanting that gold medal was like a…

— Eleanor Webb

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened,…

— John McGraw

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the…

— Jennie Finch

The kind of boy's club I'm used to? It is definitely not a jock-y, frat-y kind of thing. They say, 'I'm sensitive…

— Julie Klausner

You change the mind and world of one individual and that's huge, man. You reach one person and that starts a spiral…

— Aljamain Sterling

TV critics came after me for overhyping LeBron. A lot of people don't know this, but I didn't want to do the…

— Dick Vitale

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with…

— Walt Whitman

Baseball was always my favorite sport, and I thought it would be the sport I'd pursue for the long term. But I…

— Chris Long

I always had a problem when someone was trying to place sport in social and political context. Sport is a separate and…

— Vladimir Putin

I think, for me coming into the game, the way that I came into the sport and the business being ran the…

— Shawn Porter

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

— Richie Benaud

“There are some games you don't get to play unless you are all in.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

I don't like sports. I'm not interested in sports. I hate sports.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.

— Kirsty Gallacher

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

— Tom Landry

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

— A. J. Kitt

Shogun has been in the game since before I ever thought anything about fighting.

— Ovince Saint Preux

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few…

— Steve Waugh

That's the thing about football, it all happens quickly.

— Marco Verratti

Some players have to change their game in their careers. I did, and I like it.

— Nicolas Anelka

This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

— Abhinav Bindra

My goal is to stay healthy and win games, that's it.

— Marquise Goodwin

Football is a team sport and I'd rather place the team above my personal desires.

— Kelechi Iheanacho

Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.

— Franklyn Ajaye

I learned how to be an athlete. I learned the true art of resiliency and grit.

— Eddy Alvarez

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

— Sanya Richards-Ross