Sports Quotes · Page 280

The thing about this sport is you will be held accountable for your words come a certain date.

— Travis Browne

No sport is easy, if you spend time away it will be difficult to make a comeback.

— Geeta Phogat

At the end of the day people just like to look at the Sky Sports app and see who scores!

— Ollie Watkins

It's just a game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

— Manny Pacquiao

I thrive on competition. If you put me in a competition and I don't win, I'll die trying.

— Sarah Shahi

Being up in the game is always encouraging - you just have to keep the lead.

— Jaren Jackson, Jr

I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

— Usain Bolt

I'm not just an athlete doing something for likes on social media.

— Sean Doolittle

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America…

— W. P. Kinsella

Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I would rather sleep only five hours and wake up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. and be in control of my time…

— Dan Bouchard

You can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of…

— Jim Courier

In this sport, you're going to have your losses. That's just the name of the sport, nobody can stay on top forever.

— Anthony Johnson

There's no medals for trying. This isn't like eighth grade where everybody gets a trophy. We are in a professional sport, and…

— Bill Belichick

Football is a game. Don't get me wrong - there is money and other things in it, too - but it's still…

— Emmanuel Adebayor

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and…

— Paul Gallico

When I got a letter from a college in eighth grade saying something about basketball - I think it might have even…

— Dawn Staley

I didn't even think about hiding anything - I honestly went into it [with the idea that] I'm going to show myself…

— Ashley Graham

I'm in a sport where people don't look at us like women: they don't look at us like being girls or feminine.…

— Michelle Carter

There are not many athletes who are out. And I think it's something that's important. It felt important to me. I guess…

— Megan Rapinoe

Baseball cannot be learned as a trade. It begins with the sport of the schoolboy, and though it may end in the…

— John Montgomery Ward

“no doubt, the early traumatic shocks that young hardy brown experienced had a permanent impact on his future development and capacity to…

— Jim Dent

You have an obligation as a player - as an athlete at any level - and it doesn't matter what sport it…

— Herm Edwards

Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a…

— Richard Attias

Life is a game how high you bounce back when you hit bottom.

— Kishore Bansal

I had the opportunity to run up and down the court with the greatest athletes in the world.

— Tim Donaghy

Now that I am no longer President, I find I can no longer win every game of golf I play.

— George H. W. Bush

The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.

— Orel Hershiser

Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.

— Andrew Bogut

I like playing frisbee. It is the only sport where you can throw something at a person and it's okay.

— Demetri Martin

As a footballer, I'm never satisfied with where I'm at.

— Tobin Heath

Any time you can say you play the sport you love for a living, it's pretty cool. You can't beat that.

— Gordon Hayward

My life is already controlled by sports, I don't need a girl to control it also.

— Anonymous

Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

— John Kessel

Sports are trivial compared to matters of war and peace, but some parallels apply.

— Pete Hoekstra

Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!

— Bill Fitch

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

— Rinus Michels

As a footballer, if you work hard, then everything else falls into place.

— Victor Moses

I love the game. I love everything that it can do for people. It's not all about me.

— Hikaru Nakamura

We were a sport-oriented family. Because I was athletic, I made friends easily.

— Saroo Brierley