Best Sports Quotes
4799 Sports quotes by 2517 unique authors
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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
— John Barth
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I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
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Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in…
— Evan Bayh
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Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
— Boris Becker
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Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to…
— David Beckham
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Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.
— Adele
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
— Jack Benny
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
— Yogi Berra
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
— Yogi Berra
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
— Yogi Berra
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In baseball, you don't know nothing.
— Yogi Berra
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I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
— George Best
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish…
— Larry Bird
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
— Larry Bird
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It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
— Larry Bird
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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
— Jim Bishop
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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly…
— Hugo Black
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
— William Blake
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People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.
— Andrea Bocelli
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Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on…
— Usain Bolt
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What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
— Andre Agassi
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
— Erma Bombeck
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