Sports Quotes · Page 297

Football at it's best is a game of beauty and intelligence.

— Ron Greenwood

I see football as a team sport, I'm not looking for the spotlight.

— Raphael Varane

I've given many lessons in many sports over the years to many different people.

— Martina Navratilova

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

— Robin Williams

You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them.

— John Kessel

I definitely find myself, as I get older, a lot more aware and concerned with the health of the sport.

— Dale Earnhardt Jr

I always thought I would make it as a professional athlete but I thought it would be playing soccer.

— Cub Swanson

Golf is a weird sport and you never know what's around the corner.

— Shane Lowry

You've got to respect the game and you've got to respect what the people that have played have done for the game.

— Dwyane Wade

I think the Olympic Games have been married to political statements. If I go back to Berlin in 1936, it was very…

— John Carlos

I have met a lot of athletes who were on the top of their sport, and then sat around and did nothing.…

— Max Aaron

As it is, in football if you are on top and winning games everyone wants to play well against you, put in…

— Michael Ballack

Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is…

— Nelson Mandela

It's part of the juice of sports that you tend to find certain sports figures that you cheer on from other cities…

— Paul Allen

That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base…

— Omari Hardwick

We'd love to have a perfect scoresheet at the Olympic Games, but at the same time we always find we skate well…

— Scott Moir

“The true opponent, the enfolding boundary, is the player himself. Always and only the self out there, on court, to be met,…

— David Foster Wallace

“The descent of sport into spectacle is not unique to the age of genetic engineering. But it illustrates how performance-enhancing technologies, genetic…

— Michael J. Sandel

I've got a strength and conditioning coach, a weights coach, but I've also got a nutritionist, a physiotherapist and a masseur available…

— Liam Tancock

I loved school. Not sure how much I focused on the education; just had fun and played lacrosse for seven years. It…

— Miranda Hart

At elementary school I played every sport and then I started to like basketball more but then again I had phases with…

— O. G. Anunoby

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds.…

— Temple Grandin

I was fortunate to start the sport at a young age. I was 6 years old when my dad started teaching me.…

— Karch Kiraly

Olympic athletes are a different breed. We're not dealing with million-dollar contracts. We don't do the sport for those deals. We do…

— Rulon Gardner

It's always fun to be a part of those games where you're playing a division rival.

— Justin Tucker

We're not above a Game 7. We're not above competition.

— Erik Spoelstra

“When is a game not a game? When the game is afoot.”

— Evelyn Cullet

I don't think I have whatever that thing is that makes some athletes bad with money.

— Iman Shumpert

Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success.

— Jim Harbaugh

If you're winning games of football and you're playing well, why would you change?

— Rob Page

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

— Lord Byron

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

— William H. Gass

When I finish my career as a player I'd like to stay in contact with the sports world.

— Rodri

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.

— Berti Vogts

Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

— George Foreman

“Who needs sports stardom when you can shoot fireballs from your fingertips?”

— Ethan Gilsdorf

Had I not become a footballer, I think I would have been a virgin.

— Peter Crouch

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

— Dick Schaap

I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him

— Hansie Cronje

Everywhere you look these days you see Carolina athletes.

— Lorrie Fair