Sports Quotes · Page 312

To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.

— Don Meyer

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

— Richard M. Nixon

Sports end in a result. And life keeps going. Mine, I hope, is just getting started.

— Mardy Fish

I've played a lot of football in my life. I know the tempo and speed of the game.

— Danny Amendola

I have achieved something in sports but there's nothing like a college degree.

— Hidilyn Diaz

I love being on my bike, but I don't consider that a sport: it's too pleasant.

— John Cooper Clarke

You've got to let the game come to you. You can't press.

— Christian McCaffrey

A lot of sports cars are just not designed for the larger gentleman.

— Chris Harris

“Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles,…

— Jon M. Huntsman Sr

“Nothing was being done to help the non-dopers, to encourage or support them. Even the clean riders like myself and Moncout knew…

— David Millar

It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to…

— Frederick Lenz

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available…

— Bill Shankly

When I started competing at X Games, there was so much chaos that often me and my girlfriends would go into the…

— Jamie Anderson

I always knew and my parents always knew I was destined for greatness. I didn't know what sport it was going to…

— Tony Ferguson

All sports have a zone, but ours is at 95 mph. You can feel the speed; you can feel the wind. It's…

— Elana Meyers

Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology.…

— Thomas Boswell

“The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind…

— Olympic Charter

1. Stress improvement, not perfection (or winning). 2. Don't take yourself too seriously; laugh at yourself and have fun. 3. Set attainable…

— Dick Gould

You know, some of the action stuff, I tend to have a pretty good sense of humor about it. Even when I…

— Dolph Lundgren

Remember one thing about ESPN: People can be critical of them sometimes for being a large corporation but nine years ago I…

— Lee Corso

“It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I…

— Eric Liddell

African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from…

— Alex Berenson

I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry…

— Nancy Greene

Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly…

— David Halberstam

As an athlete, as a person, you are looking for motivation wherever you can find it.

— Jason McCourty

I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

— Eric Bristow

I know sport can change the world, and that matters to me.

— Clare Balding

I'm out there to play my sport, to showcase my sport. I'm not an actress.

— Johanna Konta

We know the principles of coaching. The art is knowing when to apply them.

— James Counsilman

I think this sport can change a lot of things. It changed my life.

— Frank Shamrock

“Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]”

— Michael Lewis

I don't think any game means less than the other ones. You always want to win.

— Hilary Knight

I was one of the ones that created the expansion for the sport.

— Diego Sanchez

If you've got competition for places then you always need to be on top of your game.

— Dominic Calvert-Lewin

You can tell MMA is a carb sport because it's fast; it's explosive. It's not a fat storage sport.

— Demetrious Johnson

“If You Respect Their Preparation, You never Drop the Baton”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.

— Jerry Rice

Competition is great, it brings the best out in everyone.

— Darren Fletcher

When you got competition, it makes people think outside the box.

— Scott Steiner