Sports Quotes · Page 301

My main thing over the years is to try to get on a team and be on a team that wins games.

— Paul Millsap

When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.

— Mary Ellen Clark

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

— Irvin S. Cobb

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.

— Alan Turing

When I was a little kid, I don't remember looking up and seeing so many Hispanic athletes out there.

— Laurie Hernandez

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

— George Foreman

You look at all other sports, basketball, you think basketball, they're always looking at their target.

— Collin Morikawa

Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.

— Hope Solo

As a professional athlete, whether it's traveling or being in a hotel room, you gotta let your time go somewhere.

— Nick Young

I don't care what anybody says: a pro athlete is going to be a role model. I tried to use that as…

— Clyde Drexler

I think you sign up to win games, and compete, and go out there and lead a team no matter how you…

— Tim Tebow

The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day.…

— Adrian Rogers

“Among the families I grew up with, and within my own, there is always the game. This competition to be more, have…

— Julian North

I have always dreamt of going to an Olympics and watching these incredible athletes and being motivated and inspired to want to…

— Ali Krieger

If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.

— Patrick Chan

I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I'm addicted…

— Salman Rushdie

Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but…

— Garrison Keillor

Ronda Rousey is a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, and anything that Ronda Rousey does is going to come with extreme scrutiny because…

— Paul Heyman

Me and my mate used to go across the park, jump on the Met line to get the Tube into Harrow. There…

— Steve Easterbrook

People know what they're getting with me. It's part and parcel of football that people want to see new faces, but all…

— Jermain Defoe

I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport…

— Boris Johnson

In fact, I have no hobbies. The only thing I like to do in life is to go to the Russian Baths…

— Jonathan Ames

I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that…

— Bela Karolyi

That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell…

— Humphrey Bogart

I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport.

— Alberto Juantorena

I put the good playing and game first, and money, prizes are secondary.

— P. V. Sindhu

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

— Alan Shearer

Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.

— George Carlin

The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken

— Tommy Woodcock

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

— Bear Bryant

Sometimes you don't know how a game is going to unfold.

— Sean Payton

As much as I love coaching the masters, junior cycling is obviously the future of our sport.

— Robin Farina

Do it for the realest people in the game right now, she will.

— Drake

In terms of the sport itself, I think we need to stop talking ourselves down.

— Toto Wolff

Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.

— DJ Khaled

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.

— Alberto Juantorena

I'm learning from every game and trying to make a difference.

— Rishabh Pant

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

— Dennis Rodman

I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for.

— Jamie Redknapp

What Tom Brady did over the history of my life is the greatest thing I've seen in sports.

— Maverick Carter