Sports Quotes · Page 313

You can score in every game, you can improve and look back on what you can do more.

— Daniel James

When I play football, I try to win the game. That is part of me. That is who I am.

— Aleksandar Mitrovic

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

— Red Smith

In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.

— Anonymous

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

— Frank Robinson

“I realize I'm black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody's wish.”

— Michael Jordan

I'm a footballer through and through. It's all I've ever wanted to be.

— Tobin Heath

As an Olympic athlete, I was at the top of my sport.

— Eddy Alvarez

When I was in school, I would participate in almost every possible competition. I also went on to represent my school and…

— Neeti Mohan

I love sports. I play golf now, which is relatively new for me. I only took it up about five years ago.…

— Condoleezza Rice

I'm in this sport for a long time and I'm going to continue to fight with my whole heart and put on…

— Joseph Benavidez

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what…

— Lee Westwood

Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a…

— William Finnegan

Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels…

— Conor McGregor

Anybody who follows me on Twitter or Facebook knows that I'm super into fantasy sports. I like to make money on my…

— Slaine

It's a game of adjustments, I would say, fighting. You learn lessons from your previous fight and you make adjustments.

— Dan Hooker

Babe Ruth, what can you say? You are almost speechless when people put your name alongside his name. I wish I can…

— Mark McGwire

Definitely sport matures you, if you let it. It definitely makes you grow up because you have to work so hard that…

— Venus Williams

You have to have passion for anything you do. Whether it's sports, whether it's music, whether you want to be Mother Theresa,…

— Zakk Wylde

I watch basketball all day every day. So when I'm watching the games, I watch it - I just enjoy watching basketball…

— Draymond Green

Life is like any other contact sport; you’re gonna get your knocks. But it’s not the knocks that count, it’s how you…

— Sydney Banks

I never went into it [the business] thinking 'I'm a female sports reporter'. I just went into it thinking 'I'm a sports…

— Michele Tafoya

I am excited to be part of Generation UCAN. I believe this product, its team and the company's vision will change the…

— Meb Keflezighi

Players like Messi and Xavi are always hungry. Whatever the game or the competition - even if it is table-tennis - they…

— Adama Traore

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

— Jay Mohr

I hated getting to a Saturday and not having a game. For me it was about playing.

— Kasper Schmeichel

“A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.”

— John Wooden

We want to build this sport all over the world and it absolutely, positively works in the U.K.

— Dana White

It is a pleasure playing in a big competition at home.

— Marcel Desailly

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Fear gives you your intensity, it gives you your game.

— Chris Eubank Sr

My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.

— Randy Castillo

Just played a little game with that pedestrian, it's called Hit & Run.

— Nikhil Saluja

I want to inspire the next generation of athletes, not just figure skaters.

— Scott Moir

It is an individual sport and you don't get many opportunities to overturn dodgy decisions.

— George Groves

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

— Jimmy Haslam

Obviously, you want to score every game, but you just have to be patient.

— Amari Cooper

If you are enjoying your football, you see it on the pitch.

— Phil Jones

Buying involves decision-making. It's a performance activity, like sports or acting.

— Mark Goulston

I came to this sport to prove to myself and others that I am this big and loud champion.

— Vasyl Lomachenko