Top sports Quotes Collection - Page 65

Discover a curated collection of sports quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 65 provides more sports quotes.

Image of Tom Brady
I think so highly of people who love their sport and make a really strong commitment to it.
- Tom Brady
Collection: Sports
Image of Theodore Roosevelt
I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Collection: Sports
Image of Rita Rudner
Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.
- Rita Rudner
Collection: Sports
Image of Mitch Albom
There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest sports car, you don't need the biggest house. The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?...Offering others what you have to give...I don't mean money, Mitch. I mean your time. Your concern. Your storytelling. It's not so hard.
- Mitch Albom
Collection: Sports
Image of Tom Brady
Football is a contact sport and there's a lot that goes into it. But I have committed myself for a long time to doing it, and because I love doing it so much I want to make that commitment.
- Tom Brady
Collection: Sports
Image of Vladimir Putin
There are also other areas. For example, culture. This is extremely important. We keep revisiting sport, judo, because I practice it, but other than that, there is also culture. Every year events that are in some way or other related to Russia take place in Japan.
- Vladimir Putin
Collection: Sports
Image of Joseph Addison
It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.
- Joseph Addison
Collection: Sports
Image of Shaun White
On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I've been in the mix and watching this grow and change. I never would have expected it to go this far.
- Shaun White
Collection: Sports
Image of William Shakespeare
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Sports
Image of Peter Singer
The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop watching the Tour de France. Maybe we should just turn off the television and get on our own bikes.
- Peter Singer
Collection: Sports
Image of Mike Tyson
I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.
- Mike Tyson
Collection: Sports
Image of Patrick Rothfuss
I don't really have a lot of expensive tastes. What else am I really going to do with my money? Buy a little red sports car? Wear a lot of jewelry? Build a castle? Well... I might do the last one. Maybe. Eventually. But that doesn't mean I can't run Worldbuilders too.
- Patrick Rothfuss
Collection: Sports
Image of Serena Williams
Will I have to explain to my daughter that her brother is gonna make more money doing the exact same job because he's a man? If they both played sports since they were three years old, they both worked just as hard, but because he's a boy, they're gonna give him more money? Like, how am I gonna explain that to her? In tennis we've had great pioneers that paved the way - including Venus [Williams], who fought so hard for Wimbledon to pay women the same prize money they pay men, and Billie Jean King, who is one of the main reasons Title IX exists.
- Serena Williams
Collection: Sports
Image of Serena Williams
I'm a high-performance athlete: I'm running, I'm sprinting, I'm sliding, I'm doing pretty much everything and the last thing I want to worry about is my chest. I want to just worry about playing the sport at the highest level that I can.
- Serena Williams
Collection: Sports
Image of Meghan O'Rourke
What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
- Meghan O'Rourke
Collection: Sports
Image of George Will
[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.
- George Will
Collection: Sports
Image of Donald Trump
I know people that can't win. I know people that are very talented at sports, and they never win.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Sports
Image of Bum Phillips
The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.
- Bum Phillips
Collection: Sports
Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What they call "play" (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Collection: Sports
Image of John Wooden
It is difficult for young players to learn - because of the great emphasis on records - but, ideally, the joy and frustration of sport should come from the performance itself, not the score. While he is playing, the worst thing a player can think about in terms of concentration - and therefore of success - is losing. The next worst is winning.
- John Wooden
Collection: Sports
Image of Aimee Mullins
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.
- Aimee Mullins
Collection: Sports
Image of Tim Tebow
One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.
- Tim Tebow
Collection: Sports
Image of Tim Tebow
You're going to have injuries, danger and glory in every sport. What makes football unique is that every person on that team needs to count on everybody else. It's the ultimate team game and you have to depend on your coaches, you have to depend on your support staff, you have to depend on your teammates.
- Tim Tebow
Collection: Sports
Image of Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Your enemy wants to strip you, make sport of you, and merchandise your body, but your heavenly Father wants to clothe you with beauty, strength, dignity and honor that will endure.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Collection: Sports
Image of William Makepeace Thackeray
Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Collection: Sports
Image of Robin Roberts
“You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress.”
- Robin Roberts
Collection: Sports
Image of Pat Summitt
I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
- Pat Summitt
Collection: Sports
Image of Pat Summitt
A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
- Pat Summitt
Collection: Sports
Image of Pat Summitt
Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
- Pat Summitt
Collection: Sports
Image of Pat Summitt
Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.
- Pat Summitt
Collection: Sports
Image of John Milton
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
- John Milton
Collection: Sports
Image of Bob Uecker
I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.
- Bob Uecker
Collection: Sports
Image of Bob Uecker
My kids used to do things to aggravate me, too. I'd take them to a game, and they'd want to come home with a different player.
- Bob Uecker
Collection: Sports
Image of Erma Bombeck
Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.
- Erma Bombeck
Collection: Sports
Image of Elon Musk
Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.
- Elon Musk
Collection: Sports
Image of Freddy Adu
I feel the pressure but I embrace it. Whatever I have to do to make the sport catch on to other people, I'll do it.
- Freddy Adu
Collection: Sports
Image of Oprah Winfrey
Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.
- Oprah Winfrey
Collection: Sports
Image of Andre Agassi
Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.
- Andre Agassi
Collection: Sports
Image of Andre Agassi
Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn't grow with the size of the person - it just forces you to swallow the whole pill.
- Andre Agassi
Collection: Sports
Image of Jack Nicklaus
You get the kids today into the sport, and then they can't get to the "next level." I mean, come on, that's a bunch of junk.
- Jack Nicklaus
Collection: Sports
Image of Will Rogers
Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.
- Will Rogers
Collection: Sports
Image of William Faulkner
Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.
- William Faulkner
Collection: Sports
Image of Bill Watterson
No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
- Bill Watterson
Collection: Sports
Image of Rick Riordan
You have to read a lot so you know what good writing looks like and you get inspired. You have to write a lot because it's like a sport - you have to practice. And, also, you have to persevere. Don't give up. I got rejected on my first book, like, 14 times, but I just kept going. So believe in yourself and don't give up.
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Sports
Image of Thomas Szasz
Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.
- Thomas Szasz
Collection: Sports
Image of Tiger Woods
My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.
- Tiger Woods
Collection: Sports
Image of Tiger Woods
I treat golf as a sport. I let other people treat it like a hobby.
- Tiger Woods
Collection: Sports
Image of Pat Riley
Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.
- Pat Riley
Collection: Sports
Image of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Collection: Sports