Sports Quotes · Page 289

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.

— Paul Ryan

They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along.

— Cleo Moore

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

— Yao Ming

When you're together, you can do anything, be it in sports or in society.

— Niko Kovac

“The only person you are ever really in competition with is yourself. Be Your Best. #Percolate”

— Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

— Michael B. Jordan

I think there's an infinite number of cool technology sports that should exist that don't.

— Saul Griffith

“Never, ever give up. You're never too old to chase your dreams. It looks like a solitary sport, but really a team…

— Diana Nyad

But it's true, I was a sports organiser at Pontins - one of a series of terrible jobs I had before I…

— Lee Mack

No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.

— Jim Leach

I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the…

— Bill Fitch

I played volleyball, basketball, softball, and I started to love soccer the most around 7-8 years old because it was a physical…

— Alex Morgan

“Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.”

— David Mitchell

In sports, you get disqualified if you violate the rules, but in Ukrainian politics, no standards are at work.

— Vitali Klitschko

It was just something normal in my family to play sports. It wasn't necessarily forced on us. It was just something we…

— Marc Bulger

I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and…

— Merlin Olsen

When you play sports, when you're on a team with people from different walks of life, and you have to look after…

— Ed Reed

Stephen A. Smith is the hardest-working man in sports show business. The ubiquitous basketball pundit appears on ESPN about 10 times a…

— Stephen Rodrick

I think that a huge positive that's come out of me having successful competitions as an athlete has been that, through the…

— Evan Lysacek

Nothing compares to when you are in coma and you hear voices and think you are dying. Then you come out of…

— Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it.…

— Phil Jackson

I first felt the addictive power of 'Game of Thrones' when I was prime minister, living in a world where power was…

— Julia Gillard

I would say go for it because it is a fantastic job. It's a wonderful opportunity to go and get involved with…

— Jill Douglas

If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.

— Vince Lombardi

I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.

— Magdalena Neuner

I want to go out and win football games, and I want the ball to be put in my hands.

— Joe Flacco

I don't know how to do anything else that isn't training and playing football.

— Willy Caballero

Every game comes down to one or two possessions, so you just really have to take advantage of them.

— Trevor Lawrence

If things were already written in advance, football would not be such a beautiful sport.

— Blaise Matuidi

I always play every game like my back is against the wall, that this could be it.

— Shaun Alexander

So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.

— Omari Hardwick

Bashing the Religious Right has become an acceptable political sport.

— Rick Scarborough

So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.

— Dan Fouts

If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.

— C. Vivian Stringer

I get emotional. I get into the game a lot and I enjoy it a lot.

— Joe Ingles

I want to encourage more people in small villages to take up sports.

— Sangram Singh

Competition brings out the best and the worst in everyone, which I personally know all too well.

— Eva Marcille

I've kind of grew to enjoy fighting legends that I got into the sport watching and admiring.

— Chris Weidman

Whoever said winning isn't everything probably didn't win.

— Anonymous