Sports Quotes · Page 414

Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

— Ed Zern

When I finish my career as a player I'd like to stay in contact with the sports world, but if it doesn't…

— Rodri

While I can hire out the portrait, I don't, because it's just - that's where I shine. You know, that's my blood…

— Kehinde Wiley

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think…

— Brian O'Driscoll

After any game you're going to get the love, the hate: That's just what comes with being a professional athlete.

— D'Angelo Russell

If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now…

— Gary Lineker

Well, no athlete respects a big, fat coach who's going to stand there and rest the watch on his stomach.

— Arthur Lydiard

When I was 11, I went to a sports school about an hour from home and stayed there during the week, only…

— Aymeric Laporte

We go out and work hard. We play this game with emotion and love. Coach always says 'Emotionally, physically, mentally - come…

— Laura Berg

I am almost certain fishermen posess a peculiar bend to their makeup. Fisherman are optimists, and the fish in the future is…

— Joseph Monninger

If you're giving me tickets to the football game, baseball game or hockey game, I'm taking the tickets to the hockey game.…

— Tom Glavine

Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had…

— Dan Hill

What I saw so clearly when I started climbing was adventure. Difficulty was only an ingredient. I never thought to wonder about…

— Peter Croft

When you're an athlete that receives so much attention since the beginning, and everybody has a tip, everybody wants to take you…

— Mackenzie Dern

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has…

— Lewis Mumford

Analysing games on the TV is something that appeals to me, and anything where you watch football and get paid for it…

— Peter Crouch

Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and…

— Robby Krieger

Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings.

— David Ferrer

Of course there is no formila for success except perhaps and unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

— Arthur Rubinstein

Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's…

— David Lauren

Obviously, I'm a competitor. I think everybody knows that. Everybody knows what I'm about and how I play football.

— Davante Adams

I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a…

— Ed Skrein

“Bouldering isn't really a sport. It's a climbing activity with metaphysical, mystical, and philosophical overtones." -John Gill-”

— Jon Krakauer

When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the…

— Donald Bradman

I'm a very feminine man. I like feminine things. I don't go to strip clubs. I don't drink beer. I don't play…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

We have four parts of our game: working against the ball; in possession; losing the ball; winning the ball. If you are…

— Ralph Hasenhuttl

I have been around this long enough to know that there are no givens in this particular sport. There are too many…

— Kevin Harvick

“You see, sex for Jews is not such a terrible sin. It's just one more physical sport we're gonna stink at.”

— Jaffe Cohen

I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medical field. But I…

— Derek Theler

Everyone in Norman knew our block. There were five kids in our neighborhood who started at QB in high school. We had…

— Zac Taylor

I liked other sports, but there was never any question in my mind I would stick to baseball and try to make…

— Aaron Boone

I'm a wrestler, so I'm used to not being paid, and I'm used to doing five or six competitions a day and…

— Chael Sonnen

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

— Cal Thomas

I play football, not to only enjoy it - and I love the challenge of playing and competing with the best players…

— Petr Cech

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the…

— Gregg Sulkin

Mom would talk about Eric Sevareid and Murrow and Howard K. Smith the way other parents talk about sports figures.

— John Dickerson

I take pride in the fact that you are able to make some good contributions to the sport at certain times.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I still get the feeling I got when I started, that's why I'm still doing it after all these years, I still…

— Mark Occhilupo