Sports Quotes · Page 314

The ultimate goal of any athlete in any sport is to become a true world champion.

— Thomas Hauser

If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.

— Michael Phelps

I'm a competitive guy, and I love the competitive nature of video games.

— Gordon Hayward

We've got to have a radical rethink of the way the sport is funded to help the young players develop.

— John Higgins

We have to be careful not to let our game not be the game we know it should be.

— Paul Ince

If I hadn't wanted to become a footballer, Dad wouldn't have made me do it.

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.

— Chad Harbach

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

— Elbert Hubbard

As someone that was a good ambassador of a growing sport, that always wanted to fight the best fighters and always gave…

— Fedor Emelianenko

Obviously stakes and pressure have increased from high school to college to the NFL, but at the end of it, it's still…

— George Kittle

When you're trying to add something to your game, you always lose something else, and that something else is something so important.

— Cub Swanson

Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to…

— Venus Williams

Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting…

— Charles Barkley

The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement…

— Harry S. Truman

When I was growing up, I played a lot of different sports. There was a time when I was playing field hockey,…

— Alexander Zverev

Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win,…

— LeBron James

When all you've done is work toward being a professional athlete, and then you injure yourself, and you know that you're going…

— Kylie Bunbury

There were so many times she took us to sports or tried to be there for every event at school. How she…

— Tayshia Adams

I don't have to rely on my athletic abilities to get by. I actually understand the game. I know the game of…

— A. J. Green

“The notion that international competition – the battle between one arbitrary, bordered landmass and another – is not political, is a fatuous…

— Daniel Harris

I think the biggest thing I can say to that is every female is different. Not that every man isn't, but speaking…

— Jessica Mendoza

I don't just get bogged down in, 'I want to win.' There's something even greater than that. And that's the way that…

— Matt Rhule

What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw…

— V. S. Naipaul

I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say "no", never stop trying, and…

— Bruce Bennett

“We have to be able to dominate the game, and make sure that we aren’t dominated ourselves.”

— Guillem Balague

The game is not lost - or won - until the last bell goes.

— John Curtin

Personally, I'm not all that interested in making the show appealing to casual sports fans.

— Jason Whitlock

I have always believed in myself. As a footballer, it is essential to have that belief.

— Victor Moses

The sport has to be entertaining, it has to make money. CM Punk brings that.

— Frank Mir

Boston is really a small town, and the pro sports here are almost like a college sport.

— Stephen Pagliuca

The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.

— Mark Cuban

I love the game and I just want to be around it or watch it all the time.

— Collin Sexton

Don't be offended babe, by what I say, its just a game, and how I play!

— Jojoo

My father loved the game. The people at the Albuquerque Academy I grew up with teaching me the game.

— Alex Bregman

It's the most competitive industry in the world, I would say, the pop culture media game.

— Spencer Pratt

Whoever wants to pay me money to play the game of football, I'll play for 'em, it doesn't matter to me.

— Joe Burrow

Children need sports, even if they are inclined towards academics.

— Brian Lara

I just play my game the best I can and if the team needs my help I'll try to do it.

— Simon Mignolet

Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.

— Jose Mourinho

It means a lot to notch my name in the sport and have my name among some of the greats.

— Christian Coleman