Best Sport Proverbs

1541 Sport quotes by 1076 unique authors

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality. — Michael Phelps
As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a… — Philip Stubbs
Lacrosse is probably the best sport I ever played. — Jim Brown
Twenty years ago people thought they were fishing nets and all sorts of things when you brought out a lacrosse stick. Now almost everywhere you… — Gary Gait
There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who… — Grantland Rice
Democracy is not a spectator sport. — Marian Wright Edelman
Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar bears… — Amy Ridenour
It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is… — Iris Murdoch
War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its… — Chris Hedges
The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order… — P.J. O'Rourke
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime. — Adolf Galland
It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: 'Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport.… — Charles Barkley
That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed… — Garrison Keillor
Mentally there's no question about whether I still like the sport and love doing it. I think it's pretty clear to everyone here that I… — Unknown Author
Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a… — Omar Epps
See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing… — Alexis Arguello
Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man. — Howard Cosell
You can never underestimate the prince, I'm always there. The prince will never die. I ain't bragging, but I ain't seen nobody, and I mean… — Unknown Author
In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved — Joyce Carol Oates
Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable. — Muhammad Ali
As someone that was a good ambassador of a growing sport, that always wanted to fight the best fighters and always gave the fans the… — Fedor Emelianenko
Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it make it so.… — John Facenda
We are civilized animals, right? Then why do we continue to slaughter for sport? What if you were a Chicken, how would you feel? I… — Buckethead
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for… — Bennett Cerf
I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you… — Estella Warren

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