Sports Quotes · Page 278

“The first question should always be, “What kind of game do they think we’re playing?”

— John Braddock

I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.

— Eric Shanteau

The man who consumes sports to the exclusion of all other things will never be well-rounded.

— Steve Rushin

In order to keep up with the rapid evolution of the sport, you've got to keep an open mind.

— Forrest Griffin

Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses.

— Bob Costas

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

— Mark Spitz

The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.

— Daniel Goleman

I don't think the sport is any more dangerous than it's ever been.

— Shaun White

I don't generally follow sports. At an early age, I discovered that nature had apportioned me only a small reserve of enthusiasm.…

— Colson Whitehead

When you've been at the top of the sport for so many years, it's your life, and it becomes very difficult just…

— Joe Calzaghe

I think the biggest difference between football and a lot of other sports is that being in a transition period doesn't mean…

— Jason Kelce

When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.

— Duffy Daugherty

I'm going to keep playing my game and get better and better each and every day and as long as my career…

— Dillon Brooks

In professional sports, things can change quickly. You keep your balance. You keep your perspective, and things will work out.

— Clyde Drexler

I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team,…

— Katie Aselton

Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

— Edward Hoagland

We play a game called, 'Peru ball,' it's a game we invented in Peru. The rules are so simple. You play with…

— Jim Harbaugh

My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches,…

— Andre Agassi

“I've often told people that the greatness of this football program will emerge when The Streak ends. I hope you will all…

— Neil Hayes

I was a very shy child. I didn't like football. I didn't like the usual stuff that was shoved at. Sports were…

— Gavin Friday

Since a calorie is a measure of food energy, you may understandably assume that the more calories you consume, the more energy…

— Brendan Brazier

Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity.…

— Kathrine Switzer

Boxing is a science. You don't just walk into a gym and start punching. Fighters are born with differences in physical ability,…

— Eddie Futch

There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to…

— Jesse Owens

I don't drink. I don't kiss girls. These things do an athlete in.

— Suleiman Nyambui

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

— Criss Jami

Strategy is not really a solo sport - even If you're the CEO.

— Max McKeown

Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.

— Steve Ballmer

It was those medals I won at Kottayam that gave me the confidence to dream it big in athletics.

— P. T. Usha

In sports, you always want to improve. You don't stop until you reach your peak.

— Hidilyn Diaz

I know people that can't win. I know people that are very talented at sports, and they never win.

— Donald Trump

Keep playing games and you'll be playing them alone.

— SONYA PARKER

Its not that you won or lost ... but how you played the game

— Grantland Rice

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

— Karel Capek

People can be critical about your game, but no one knows better than the player as to what he needs.

— Shikhar Dhawan

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

— Samuel Richardson

“once I trained for the Olympics but panic is not a sport”

— Daniel Bailey

Look, tennis is a funny sport. I always try to do my best and play as best as I can.

— Bernard Tomic

I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.

— Gabriel Basso

We want to play a physical game and impose our will on people.

— Ezekiel Elliott