Top sports Quotes Collection - Page 12

Discover a curated collection of sports quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 12 provides more sports quotes.

Image of Emma Stone
You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.
- Emma Stone
Collection: Sports
Image of Howard Cosell
Sports is the toy department of human life.
- Howard Cosell
Collection: Sports
Image of Trent Alexander-Arnold
Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the life of a footballer, and I guess that is true across most sports now.
- Trent Alexander-Arnold
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Image of Ralph H. Baer
People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
- Ralph H. Baer
Collection: Sports
Image of Renee Rapp
I grew up playing a lot of sports and doing musical theater.
- Renee Rapp
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Image of Steve Rushin
The first words Rebecca Lobo ever spoke to me when we met in a Manhattan bar in 2001 were, 'Aren't you the guy who just mocked women's basketball in 'Sports Illustrated'?' I blushed, broke out in a flop sweat and said, 'Yes.'
- Steve Rushin
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Image of Chris Hardwick
Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.
- Chris Hardwick
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Image of Tim Ferriss
I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.
- Tim Ferriss
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Image of Brad Garrett
Athletics are not my wheelhouse because sports were mean to this uncoordinated kid growing up, a 6-foot-2 14-year-old who never could do a layup.
- Brad Garrett
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Image of Kriti Sanon
I'm not much involved in sports, and I don't play, either.
- Kriti Sanon
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Image of Allison Williams
I put so much pressure on myself to be perfect. Between homework and sports and drama and being social, I slept about four hours a night through high school and college.
- Allison Williams
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Image of Bill Bradley
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
- Bill Bradley
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Image of H. L. Mencken
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
- H. L. Mencken
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Image of Arthur Ashe
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
- Arthur Ashe
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Image of Jason Bateman
I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
- Jason Bateman
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Image of Patrick Mahomes
Kids in sports - it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.
- Patrick Mahomes
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Image of Julie Foudy
Sports not only build better athletes but also better people.
- Julie Foudy
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Image of Jon Gruden
I got a lot of the greatest values in life from playing sports, from playing football - teamwork, sportsmanship, my work ethic, resiliency, dedication - I got it all by being on a team.
- Jon Gruden
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Image of Luke Scott
I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.
- Luke Scott
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Image of Carroll Shelby
In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'
- Carroll Shelby
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Image of Mark Fisher
While football embarrassingly exposes the excesses of capitalism, the Olympic sports have been used to propagate the neoliberal mantra that success is simply a matter of hard work.
- Mark Fisher
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Image of Michelle Wie
I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.
- Michelle Wie
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Image of Richard M. Nixon
I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
- Richard M. Nixon
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Image of Dave Chappelle
I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.
- Dave Chappelle
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Image of Colson Whitehead
I don't generally follow sports. At an early age, I discovered that nature had apportioned me only a small reserve of enthusiasm. Best to ration.
- Colson Whitehead
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Image of Dulquer Salmaan
When I was growing up, I wasn't particularly great at anything. I was in my own world, and my teachers felt I'd never reach my potential. Even in sports, I'd only play team games because I felt I was not good enough to outshine anyone.
- Dulquer Salmaan
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Image of Andy Samberg
You get into comedy because you are insecure, and you communicate with the world through comedy to sort of alleviate the tension of those insecurities and to find a way to make people like you other than the way you look or how good you are at sports. I don't think that really goes away.
- Andy Samberg
Collection: Sports
Image of Bar Refaeli
These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
- Bar Refaeli
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Image of Robert Huber
I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.
- Robert Huber
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Image of Aaron Gordon
Basketball is a medium. Sports is a medium. But it's for every day life. It's to help you alleviate suffering and replace it with peace, love and compassion.
- Aaron Gordon
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Image of Amy Jo Martin
We live in a social world now, and there's no denying the power that Twitter has yielded across all verticals. Sports is a perfect fit because fans are highly emotionally charged and things happen quick.
- Amy Jo Martin
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Image of Julie Foudy
Most sports federations, corporations, and governments don't change voluntarily. Change is brought by the disenfranchised demanding better.
- Julie Foudy
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Image of Wayne Brady
Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
- Wayne Brady
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Image of Stephen Rodrick
Stephen A. Smith is the hardest-working man in sports show business. The ubiquitous basketball pundit appears on ESPN about 10 times a day as a regular on the show 'NBA Fastbreak,' a guest commentator on 'Sports Center,' and a pundit on 'ESPNEWS.'
- Stephen Rodrick
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Image of Angela Merkel
It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.
- Angela Merkel
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Image of Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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Image of Petr Cech
If you take the autobiographies of great sports people, they are almost always the same. They start with zero; they are always ambitious, know what they want to do in life, and have the confidence to do it.
- Petr Cech
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Image of Alex Morgan
I started off playing sports when I was five years old. I played three or four sports all throughout the year.
- Alex Morgan
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Image of Rachel Parris
I'm a sports idiot - watching it, playing it, making conversation about it - I got nothing.
- Rachel Parris
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Image of Chris Pine
I like a deep sports massage - a casual beating up. I try to get them whenever I can, usually more if I'm getting in shape for a role.
- Chris Pine
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Image of Naveen Patnaik
I believe that investment in sports is investment in youth. And that, in turn, is investment in the future.
- Naveen Patnaik
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Image of Sergei Bubka
I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.
- Sergei Bubka
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Image of William Sloane Coffin
It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
- William Sloane Coffin
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Image of Mike Schmidt
They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
- Mike Schmidt
Collection: Sports
Image of Avery Brundage
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
- Avery Brundage
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Image of Elizabeth Hurley
I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.
- Elizabeth Hurley
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Image of Yeardley Smith
Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.
- Yeardley Smith
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Image of Jack Kent Cooke
Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
- Jack Kent Cooke
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Image of Cal Thomas
The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
- Cal Thomas
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