Two things help me be a winner. One is I try to stay on an even keel. I don't get too high… — Ila Borders Copy Share Image
As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I… — Lolo Jones Copy Share Image
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins. — Major Taylor Copy Share Image
I declare the 20th Winter Games closed. I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in… — Jacques Rogge Copy Share Image
When you read about white athletes these days and white skill possession receivers specifically, one word you'll always find is tough. You'll… — Christian McCaffrey Copy Share Image
There are good life skills to be had in the sport. It is a big positive to see young kids coming to… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I… — Amanda Beard Copy Share Image
There is no Game 7 without winning Game 6. And there is no Game 8 if you don't win Game 7. That's… — Joe Maddon Copy Share Image
Legacy means so many things: accessible venues, transport, better awareness in schools, and a wonderful event which establishes healthy lives for another… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
“The Sometime Sportsman Greets the Spring by John Updike When winter's glaze is lifted from the greens, And cups are freshly cut,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I hate to lose, and if anybody gets used to losing they are going to be a loser. I'd like to tell… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
To be honest, sports has been very beneficial for me just because some of my best friends have been Black since I've… — Kevin Huerter Copy Share Image
I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Sports is about balls and about heart and you don't find too many champions in any sport in the world without heart… — Mats Wilander Copy Share Image
I have an understanding of how much is at stake in football, how much money is at stake, how much investment there… — Nigel Pearson Copy Share Image
By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most… — Svetlana Boginskaya Copy Share Image
It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see… — Gaines Adams Copy Share Image
I have the opportunity to control what happens in a game. I'll have the ball in my hand, and only I know… — Clinton Portis Copy Share Image
Look, the only way for me to enjoy the game is to be consumed by it, to compete at a level where… — Troy Aikman Copy Share Image
I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals. — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
“Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.” — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race. — Henry Iba Copy Share Image
“He's probably the only player who doesn't play for 10 months and, if he scores a hat trick in his first game… — Ryan Whitney Copy Share Image
“The athlete doesn’t stop smoking and start training. He starts training and finds he has stopped smoking.” — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
I know a lot of athletes, they want to play until their 45 or 50 or whatever, some athletes claim, but count… — Joey Votto Copy Share Image
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
Cheerleading gave me a love of sports, which I brought to the Senate. I can talk to the good ol' boys about… — Kay Bailey Hutchison Copy Share Image
When it comes down to competition, its not always about the best skater, its about who skates the best in that competition. — Gracie Gold Copy Share Image
As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
My father pushed me to be a footballer. At every opportunity, he took me with him to play football. He came with… — Riyad Mahrez Copy Share Image
Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or… — Jean de Gribaldy Copy Share Image
My dad was always at work running a business, so our mom really took care of us. She'd bring us all to… — Dan Gronkowski Copy Share Image
There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of… — George Will Copy Share Image
We all have different athletic strengths, but I bring a mentality, a physical toughness, an attitude, that they do not have, that… — Arthur Jones Copy Share Image
A weak, insecure nation needs sporting heroes, players larger than life on the cricketing field, who can transcend the limitations of their… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I'm a sports fan of all sports - college basketball, MLB, NFL - and as a fan, the only sport I feel… — Kirk Herbstreit Copy Share Image
Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
It's sports. If you care so deeply about it, you're just going to go through the wave of the roller coaster. — Nelly Korda Copy Share Image
Sport is made to be live. You can't watch something three hours later already knowing the results; it's not the same experience. — Scott Coker Copy Share Image
I have coaching friends, and when we get together, we often talk more about what we're doing to get players' attention than… — Tony La Russa Copy Share Image
