Sports Quotes
4799 Sports quotes by 2517 unique authors
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't…
— Alexis Arguello
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
— Aristotle
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something…
— J. J. Abrams
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
— Lance Armstrong
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
— Lance Armstrong
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
— Lance Armstrong
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
— Arthur Ashe
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There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
— Arthur Ashe
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Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
— Red Auerbach
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
— Jane Austen
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Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those…
— Richard Bach
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I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.
— David Bailey
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I think that every single person should play sports.
— Donovan Bailey
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In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
— Russell Baker
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
— Honore de Balzac
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The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A…
— Roger Bannister
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Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul…
— George Matthew Adams
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These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't…
— Charles Barkley
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You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
— Charles Barkley
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If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they…
— Charles Barkley
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Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
— Dave Barry
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Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
— Dave Barry
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The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
— Dave Barry
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Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
— Dave Barry
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