Top sports Quotes Collection - Page 61

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Image of John Wooden
The purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to correct.
- John Wooden
Collection: Sports
Image of Gary Player
The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.
- Gary Player
Collection: Sports
Image of Theodore Roosevelt
Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Collection: Sports
Image of Laurence Olivier
A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was and always will be athletic, depending on inner if not on visible energy. Members of other professions that depend on the expenditure of physical energy must, I believe, find similar difficulties when attempting to double up on their energies. One has often heard that the most magnificent specimens of boxers, wrestlers and champions in almost every branch of athletic sport prove to be disappointing upon the removal of that revered jockstrap.
- Laurence Olivier
Collection: Sports
Image of Mark Spitz
Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken
- Mark Spitz
Collection: Sports
Image of Mark Spitz
Swimming isn't everything - winning is.
- Mark Spitz
Collection: Sports
Image of Mark Spitz
Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching
- Mark Spitz
Collection: Sports
Image of Joe Rogan
There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.
- Joe Rogan
Collection: Sports
Image of Patrick Rothfuss
Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.
- Patrick Rothfuss
Collection: Sports
Image of Serena Williams
I feel like I don't have to win anymore. I've had a wonderful career. Tennis has given me so much, things I would have never expected in my life. I feel honored to even be a part of such a wonderful sport.
- Serena Williams
Collection: Sports
Image of Michael Pollan
I think that there's some brainwashing going on with this idea that we don't have time to cook anymore. We have made cooking seem much more complicated than it is, and part of that comes from watching cooking shows on television-we've turned cooking into a spectator sport. ...My wife and I both work, and we can get a very nice dinner on the table in a half hour. It would not take any less time for us to drive to a fast-food outlet and order, sit down, and bus our table.
- Michael Pollan
Collection: Sports
Image of Ezra Taft Benson
The body needs the rejuvenation that comes from exercise. Walking in the fresh air can be exhilarating and refreshing. Properly directed running can also have some beneficial effects. Simple sit-ups or sports activities can also be helpful.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Collection: Sports
Image of Yogi Berra
You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.
- Yogi Berra
Collection: Sports
Image of Vladimir Putin
I like other sports, too, including skiing and swimming, and I am learning to play ice hockey now. But judo is definitely part of my life, a very big part, and I am glad that judo was the first sport I took up and that I have practiced it regularly and seriously. I am also grateful to Japan for this.
- Vladimir Putin
Collection: Sports
Image of Vladimir Putin
Kodokan is, to a large degree, a trendsetter in the sport. This school trained outstanding masters and is a kind of Mecca for all judokas. Certainly, I would be pleased to visit, if time permits.
- Vladimir Putin
Collection: Sports
Image of Michael Ian Black
I'm trying to teach my children not to cry. That's the big thing. No crying. Because I think we can all agree that crying is, for the most part, for sissies. If my team loses, I'm going to cry. And I'm going to want my kids to see me crying. Not because I think sports are so important, but because I bet so much money on the game that we'll probably lose the house if my team doesn't win. That's something to cry about.
- Michael Ian Black
Collection: Sports
Image of Michael Ian Black
My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it.
- Michael Ian Black
Collection: Sports
Image of Tom Brady
In sports you often become part of something greater than yourself.
- Tom Brady
Collection: Sports
Image of Tom Brady
With football, you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two-game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.
- Tom Brady
Collection: Sports
Image of Bill Watterson
I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
- Bill Watterson
Collection: Sports
Image of Michael Novak
Sports is, somehow, a religion.
- Michael Novak
Collection: Sports
Image of Jack Nicklaus
Age doesn't make a difference either. Whether you're 20 or 70, you can still play together. There are so many different things you can do with golf that you can't do in other sports.
- Jack Nicklaus
Collection: Sports
Image of Jack Nicklaus
There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. The busier you keep yourself with the particulars of shot assessment and execution, the less chance your mind has to dwell on the emotional. This is sheer intensity.
- Jack Nicklaus
Collection: Sports
Image of Bill Shankly
I never drop a player I only make changes.
- Bill Shankly
Collection: Sports
Image of Chuck Norris
Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.
- Chuck Norris
Collection: Sports
Image of Sarah Palin
I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.
- Sarah Palin
Collection: Sports
Image of Zakk Wylde
Even when I played sports when I was little, I played to win. Otherwise, what's the point of putting the pads on and going to practice? I don't understand.
- Zakk Wylde
Collection: Sports
Image of Ronda Rousey
It was a very bold step for Sports Illustrated, and a lot of people are taking notice. I want it to be so normal that people don't even notice anymore.
- Ronda Rousey
Collection: Sports
Image of Ronda Rousey
The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue really sets the social standard for what people expect the perfect woman's body to look like, and a lot of those bodies usually look the same.
- Ronda Rousey
Collection: Sports
Image of Donald Trump
I know how to win. I have been winning. I do win. Even in sports.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Sports
Image of Michael Phelps
One thing with me, and every goal I've had - in the sport of swimming, my mother didn't know my goals. The only person that knew my goals were my coaches.
- Michael Phelps
Collection: Sports
Image of Michael Phelps
When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.
- Michael Phelps
Collection: Sports
Image of Michelle Obama
You look at all the sporting companies out there. I won't name names, but we know who they are. Good brands and logos and things like that, and they have to start catering to real women. Even in how their sports apparel is designed, and the commercials - you want to look at a commercial and see yourself.
- Michelle Obama
Collection: Sports
Image of Shaquille O'Neal
I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.
- Shaquille O'Neal
Collection: Sports
Image of Robert Mugabe
Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.
- Robert Mugabe
Collection: Sports
Image of Evo Morales
Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential palace. My first position in the union was that of sports secretary.
- Evo Morales
Collection: Sports
Image of Lilith Saintcrow
I don't even have moderately big breasticles. They just look like - well, nevermind what they look like. At least they stay strapped down when I worm into a sports bra.
- Lilith Saintcrow
Collection: Sports
Image of J. K. Rowling
Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?
- J. K. Rowling
Collection: Sports
Image of David Foster Wallace
Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.
- David Foster Wallace
Collection: Sports
Image of Hakeem Olajuwon
Sports plays an interesting role in society. The greatest sportsmen have platforms to speak out on issues and really affect how the public thinks about some very critical issues facing the world.
- Hakeem Olajuwon
Collection: Sports
Image of Hakeem Olajuwon
Well, the problem is the freedom that the sport gives you without getting to politics. Unfortunately, you cannot now separate it because people cannot be truthful; they have to be politically correct. There's no more sincerity. What we had before was freedom of speech and freedom of expression without judgement. That's why I don't get into politics.
- Hakeem Olajuwon
Collection: Sports
Image of Robert Greene
I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing.
- Robert Greene
Collection: Sports
Image of Arnold Schwarzenegger
I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest. Then I'm proud. On television I am proud. But on a beach most people are not experts. The general public doesn't know how to look. How proud can you be when they don't even know what they're looking at?
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Collection: Sports
Image of Ice T
The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.
- Ice T
Collection: Sports
Image of Gregory David Roberts
The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the discreet shelter of a satellite dish. An electric forklift truck was being used to unload goods from an ancient wooden cart with wooden wheels. The impression was of a plodding indefatigable and distant past that had crashed intact through barriers of time into its own future. I liked it.
- Gregory David Roberts
Collection: Sports
Image of Barack Obama
Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Sports
Image of Boris Becker
The boys are so powerful off of the baseline now that they don't have to come to the net to finish points. That's the reason we went to the net. To finish the point. Nowadays, even the big guys can hit winners four feet behind the baseline.
- Boris Becker
Collection: Sports
Image of Plautus
Not every age is fit for childish sports.
- Plautus
Collection: Sports
Image of Ashley Tisdale
I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear. When I took the Hellcats job I was like whoa, this is a sport. Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.
- Ashley Tisdale
Collection: Sports