656 Sports Quotes

We all wake up at our leisure; the kids know not to wake me up. Then we make breakfast or go out to eat with family. There is usually a sporting event or two to watch! ~ Josie Bissett

Ease is something that I think many admire in other people, in sports or whatever it may be. ~ Peter Riegert

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice. ~ Payne Stewart

There is no such thing as creativity in the abstract. Likewise, there is no such thing as innovation in the abstract. To describe yourself as an entrepreneur or a disrupter is as meaningless as describing yourself as an athlete or a thinker. Really? What sports do you play? What do you think about? What ~ Eric Weiner

Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him. ~ Muhammad Ali

I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport. ~ Jeff Lindsay

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for. ~ Ian Thorpe

The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered. ~ Lou Brock

As long as I'm working in sport, enjoying it and getting to see some wonderful sporting events, I'm quite happy. I don't want to be really famous. I don't want people to stop me in the street. I want to just enjoy the work, work with lovely people, work on good quality sport and get to experience some more of these amazing moments. ~ Jill Douglas

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog. ~ Whitey Herzog

If at this moment you simply made up your minds that you were handsome, beautiful, strong, dangerous, powerful, that you knew everything there was to know, you were totally capable in any job that you undertook or any sport you undertook-if you really believed that, and you can believe it, some of your faces would change physically before my eyes. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

I want to support kids that not a lot of people believe in. Give them an opportunity to do good in school, play sports and get scholarships. ~ Tim Tebow

All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching. ~ Bobby Hull

A sports bar is a way to take a bar and fill it with even more annoying people than usual. ~ Demetri Martin

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books. ~ Jeff Kinney

I'd never driven a Porsche in my life and it made me nervous to drive one now, but I realized I could get used to driving a luxury sports car pretty darn quick. I really should have been born into royalty. ~ Tiffany Snow

In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special. ~ Randy Lerner

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on. ~ Jerry Coleman

As I've mentioned, I am an only child. This makes me a member of the worldwide super-smart-afraid-of-conflict narcissist club. And let me emphasize: afraid of conflict. Since I had no siblings to routinely challenge/hit me and equally no interest in playing sports, I had grown up without any experience in conflict. I therefore had no reason to imagine that confrontation of any kind, ranging from fighting to kissing, was not probably fatal. ~ John Hodgman

In football, time and space are the same thing. ~ Graham Taylor

You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why it's my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S&M. It's because their bodies are crying out for some kind of action. ~ Brian Eno

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. ~ Andrea Bocelli

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best. ~ Jack Nicklaus

The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet. ~ Wladimir Klitschko

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey. ~ Patrick Chan

Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it. ~ Caitlyn Jenner

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter. ~ John Wooden

Kids don't know the language of figure skating. If you ask them to do a compulsory figure, they don't know how to, and that's so important for the edge quality. I think that's why the older skaters are still as popular as they are - because they have that quality that people are missing in this generation. ~ Brian Boitano

Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance. ~ Kapil Dev

When is a game more than a game? So often, we pay lip service to the uplifting power of sports, the teamwork, the camaraderie, the lessons in taming one's own ego for the sake of the group. But you have to wonder, how often is that still really true? ~ Michel Martin

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Life is a sports make it count. ~ Derrick Adkins

Of course there is school and sports, but I also like X-Box 360. 'Black Ops 3' is one of my favorites. I also like to play the guitar and piano. ~ Chandler Canterbury

I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment. ~ Brian O'Driscoll

Given the diverse raiment life sports, one never knows what the guises of the gods may be. ~ Stephanie Mills

I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk

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

Where there is peace, there is sports; where there is sports, there is peace. Peace is what allows us, especially young people, to dream, go after one's goals and prepare you for the next challenge in life. ~ Kim Yuna

The beautiful thing about the game of golf is you can play good golf and compete well into your later years, and you can't do this in basketball or football or baseball. But in golf, it's a longer live sport. ~ Tom Watson

Anybody who has played sports and says they have never choked is lying to you. ~ Pete Sampras

All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day. ~ Thomas Jefferson

I have witnessed first-hand how the power of sport can positively impact the lives of wounded, injured and sick Servicemen and women in their journey of recovery. The Invictus Games will focus on what they can achieve post injury and celebrate their fighting spirit, through an inclusive sporting competition that recognises the sacrifice they have made. I am extremely proud that we are bringing an event like this to the UK for the first time and believe it can have a long lasting impact on the well-being of those who have served their nations so bravely. ~ Prince Harry

I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated. However, I still get invites to the class reunions ... I don't know that I want to see how everyone looks now. ~ Ryan Stiles

Something quite special has played out in the picturesque valleys and mountains, towns and villages of France over the past three weeks. For all who appreciate sport, it was a privilege and an inspiration to watch. ~ Paul Ramadge

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. ~ Jean-Claude Killy

My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.' ~ Michael Phelps