Top sports Quotes Collection - Page 69

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Image of Greg Norman
I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.
- Greg Norman
Collection: Sports
Image of Elvis Presley
There's no room to Rhumba in a sports car.
- Elvis Presley
Collection: Sports
Image of Bill Parcells
Some guys are just very, very interested in their sport and their predecessors. I know I was a guy like that when I was a young coach. I wanted to know about George Halas, I wanted to know about Jim Lee Howell, guys you don't even know. I wanted to know what they were like. So I read whatever I could get my hands on.
- Bill Parcells
Collection: Sports
Image of Bill Parcells
My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.
- Bill Parcells
Collection: Sports
Image of Michel de Montaigne
When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?
- Michel de Montaigne
Collection: Sports
Image of Jon Jones
I take it so seriously as far as meditation, notes, visualization, preparation, everything. I take it a lot more serious than a lot of people that play this sport. I'm obsessed with the game that I play.
- Jon Jones
Collection: Sports
Image of Jon Jones
there's a lot of dangerous sports. You know, my opinion, football is the most dangerous sport there is. After that I'll give it to probably boxing. Then there's some other extreme sports out there, motocross where you're really risking your neck every time you go out there and do it.
- Jon Jones
Collection: Sports
Image of Michael Phelps
I felt comfortable in the water. I was in my own world, focused. I love sports and I'm a very goal-oriented person. Once I started falling in love with sports, it was easy. I was able to put my mind on something and go for it. That's how I am with everything, it doesn't matter what it is that I do. If I want to do something, nothing will stand in my way.
- Michael Phelps
Collection: Sports
Image of J. K. Rowling
He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world
- J. K. Rowling
Collection: Sports
Image of Pablo Neruda
And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to you to make you hear as I want you to hear me.
- Pablo Neruda
Collection: Sports
Image of Daniel Radcliffe
I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open.
- Daniel Radcliffe
Collection: Sports
Image of Emma Watson
WHEN AT 15, MY GIRLFRIENDS STARTED DROPPING OUT OF THEIR BELOVED SPORTS TEAMS, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT TO APPEAR MUSCLE-Y, WHEN AT 18, MY MALES FRIENDS WERE UNABLE TO EXPRESS THEIR FEELINGS, I DECIDED THAT I WAS A FEMINIST.
- Emma Watson
Collection: Sports
Image of John Wooden
I constantly caution our teams: 'Play your game, just play your game. Eventually, if you play your game, stick to your style, class will tell in the end.' This does not mean that we will always outscore our opponent, but it does insure that we will not beat ourselves.
- John Wooden
Collection: Sports
Image of Anthony Bourdain
I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.
- Anthony Bourdain
Collection: Sports
Image of Herschel Walker
I was a little different. I still say Im a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.
- Herschel Walker
Collection: Sports
Image of Herschel Walker
People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and boxing,... And people tell me they don't believe it. Am I not the most credible person to give you the answer to that?
- Herschel Walker
Collection: Sports
Image of Mark Twain
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Sports
Image of Bill Rodgers
Running is a very natural activity. If you get too caught up, you find yourself constantly seeking to make running something that it isn't. You should let it be what it is - a very simple activity. Running has become too complicated for many people and they wind up turning sour on the sport, or losing the focus of their direction.
- Bill Rodgers
Collection: Sports
Image of Helen Fisher
Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.
- Helen Fisher
Collection: Sports
Image of Bethany Hamilton
I love the ocean, and I love surfing. It's something so special and unique, and surfing is unlike any other sport. Skateboarding is amazing, you get the adrenaline rush, but you don't get the feel of the ocean, of doing its own thing. Totally surrounding you. Definitely a unique thing, it's a blessing, and a huge part of my healing process I would say.
- Bethany Hamilton
Collection: Sports
Image of Arnold Palmer
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.
- Arnold Palmer
Collection: Sports
Image of Conan O'Brien
Scientists have found a way to keep middle-aged female mice from going through menopause. Now they're working on a way to keep middle-aged male mice from buying expensive sports cars.
- Conan O'Brien
Collection: Sports
Image of Will Rogers
It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.
- Will Rogers
Collection: Sports
Image of Sylvester Stallone
Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions.
- Sylvester Stallone
Collection: Sports
Image of Joyce Brothers
If we did get a divorce, the only way my husband would find out about it is if they announced it on Wide World of Sports.
- Joyce Brothers
Collection: Sports
Image of Rachel Caine
Want to play baseball?’” she asked. Shane’s eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. “What?’” “First base,’” she said. “You’re already there.’” “I’m not running the bases.’” “Well, you could at least steal second.’” “Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you’ve gone and ruined it.
- Rachel Caine
Collection: Sports
Image of Pope John Paul II
It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.
- Pope John Paul II
Collection: Sports
Image of Vladimir Putin
I believe it is right when not only me, but also my colleagues - the prime minister, ministers, deputies of the State Duma - when they, like today, for example, participate in two marathons, when they visit football matches, when they themselves take part in sport competitions. That is how, inter alia, millions of people start feeling interest in and love for fitness and sports. I believe it is extremely important.
- Vladimir Putin
Collection: Sports
Image of Larry Bird
Anytime you've got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal, I think that takes it all. That's the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.
- Larry Bird
Collection: Sports
Image of George S. Patton
There is no such thing as a successful defense.
- George S. Patton
Collection: Sports
Image of Arnold Schwarzenegger
When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Collection: Sports
Image of Arnold Schwarzenegger
The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field, no bat, no ball, no skis, no skates. All other athletes have to use equipment, like a football. But I don't use anything in competition except myself. It's just me up there. Me alone. No coach. No nothing.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Collection: Sports
Image of Mark Twain
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Sports
Image of Pete Rose
I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.
- Pete Rose
Collection: Sports
Image of Mike Tyson
[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
- Mike Tyson
Collection: Sports
Image of Eddie Rickenbacker
Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
Collection: Sports
Image of Robert Benchley
When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.
- Robert Benchley
Collection: Sports
Image of Christopher Paolini
There is no more exciting sport than flying, for if you lose, you die.
- Christopher Paolini
Collection: Sports
Image of Ayrton Senna
I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.
- Ayrton Senna
Collection: Sports
Image of Serena Williams
We're in different categories. She [Venus Williams] does sports, I do more of the fashion side.
- Serena Williams
Collection: Sports
Image of John Milton
Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.
- John Milton
Collection: Sports
Image of Robin Williams
I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.
- Robin Williams
Collection: Sports
Image of Steven Van Zandt
Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun.
- Steven Van Zandt
Collection: Sports
Image of Jesse Owens
Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.
- Jesse Owens
Collection: Sports
Image of Jesse Owens
It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
- Jesse Owens
Collection: Sports
Image of Jesse Owens
I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.
- Jesse Owens
Collection: Sports
Image of Mike Tyson
The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
- Mike Tyson
Collection: Sports
Image of Alex Rodriguez
I kept thinking my father would come back, But he never did.
- Alex Rodriguez
Collection: Sports