Best Sports Quotes

I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house. ~ Gail Simmons

We have the best sporting event in the world in polo, and yet it is weak. ~ Facundo Pieres

I'm honored and excited to be chosen to lead MLSE, a world-class sports and entertainment organization with the major league teams, premier facilities and employee team that rank with the very best across North America and internationally. ~ Tim Leiweke

If you want to perform at your ultimate best, if you want to be the best you can be in sports and in school, mentally, physically - chiropractic is the way, because everything has to do with your nervous system. ~ Jonathan Lipnicki

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport. ~ Yoshiro Mori

Jimmy Demaret and I had the best sports psychologist in the world. His name was Jack Daniels and he was waiting for us after every round. ~ Jack Burke, Jr.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best. ~ Althea Gibson

It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by 'The Sporting News' as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955. ~ George Vecsey

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day. ~ Phil Knight

In sport you always think the strongest guy should be going for it and getting the best results. The thing is, cycling also has a very important team aspect, which I don't think that a lot of people fully grasp. ~ Chris Froome

If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world. ~ Pele

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is. ~ Norm MacDonald

My good health, coupled with joy of tobogganing and my desire to be the best, has helped me stay in professional sport for so long. ~ Armin Zoggeler

Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I'll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities. ~ Tibor Benedek

Theatre sports is the best improv training period. ~ Wayne Brady

We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to. ~ Jerry Lawler

I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best ~ Cristiano Ronaldo

Definitely, injuries are tough, and they happen to every athlete in every sport. The best athletes put it behind them and keep pushing forward. I haven't really had a choice; I've had so many injuries. And the love of BMX, I haven't wanted to stop no matter what. ~ Tory Nyhaug

It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing. ~ Patrick Kane

The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call 'the good old days.' Fans want the best, wherever they come from. ~ Mario Andretti

I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me. ~ Zach Johnson

Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more. ~ Fiona Wood

Pennant races drain the energy from the best of them. Old-fashioned baseball races are to me the most grueling daily test in any sport. Gotta keep coming out, every day, in the face of looming disaster. ~ George Vecsey

Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old. ~ Suzy Favor Hamilton

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it. ~ Roger Federer

I pray not for victory, but to do my best. ~ Amos Alonzo Stagg

I was very sporty at school, and sport was probably the thing I was best at, but my real passion was for fashion. ~ Kirsty Gallacher

I am simply the very best sports entertainer ~ Shawn Michaels

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding. ~ Will Self

I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going, I cannot be stopped, I just keep going. ~ Sepp Blatter

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life. ~ Carl Lewis

All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room. ~ Pete Hamill

Hmm, the best thing about being in the NFL? In America it's the No.1 sport; it's exciting, fun, so to me the best thing is the buzz that surrounds football on and off the field. ~ Reggie Bush

Tension is the greatest curse in sport. I've never had any tension. You give the best you have - you win or lose. What's the difference if you give all you've got to give? ~ Chief Bender

Lacrosse is probably the best sport I ever played. ~ Jim Brown

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment. ~ Chuck D

There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world. ~ Jackie Stewart

I think Philly is arguably the best sports town - football town - in America. ~ Ron Jaworski

I went to dance class as a girl because I didn't like sports, but I never did a dance recital in my life. Never, ever, ever. I felt comfortable dancing, and I was happiest dancing, but I was never the best person in the class. ~ Jennifer Grey

I definitely want to direct. This is just another learning experience for me, to get a chance to hear the questions and concerns the directors have, some of their fears. It's a team sport. You have to give everybody what they need so they are able to perform at their best. ~ Michael B. Jordan

I've always thought basketball was the best sport, although it wasn't the sport I was best at. It was just the most fun to watch. ~ Jack Nicholson

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years. ~ Dennis Miller

I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes. ~ Carine Roitfeld

In all of my life, when I was playing sports, I always put 100 percent. I have always given the best. ~ Garfield Sobers

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too. ~ Jurgen Klinsmann

The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started. ~ John Madden

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports. ~ Rebecca Lobo

Either you were the best of the best or you were nothing, and somehow that didn't seem right. ~ Tim Green

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

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

You can't do sports for the rest of your life; I don't care how good you are. You can be the best ever, but it's still going to go away. ~ Terry Crews

The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century or so and watching them collaborate: 'OK, Twain, you do the dialogue and hand off to Faulkner. He'll do the interior monologue. Hemingway will edit - no, don't make that face, you know you overwrite. And be nice to Cheever. He's young, but he's got a good ear. Wharton and Cather can't play - they're girls.' ~ Anna Quindlen

I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role. ~ Celia Imrie

It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats. ~ Murray Walker

Don't let this[football] be the best thing that ever happens in your life. Maybe it'll be the best sports event, but don't let it be the best thing. Make sure you're a better father than this today. Make sure you're a better husband than this today. Because this goes away ... It's a game. ~ Mack Brown

Scott Medlock is the 'Top Gun' of sports artists. He truly is the best of the best. ~ Jim Hill

I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I've learned if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do. ~ Roger Staubach

Every good athlete can find the flow," continues Pastrana, "but it's what you do with it that makes you great. If you consistently use that state to do the impossible, you get confident in your ability to do the impossible. You begin to expect it. That's why we're seeing so much progression in action sports today. It's the natural result of a whole lot of people starting to expect the impossible. ~ Steven Kotler

The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life. ~ Jack Johnson

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that. ~ Dawn Fraser

I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better. ~ Martina Hingis

I come from a very sporting family and played many sports as a lad. ~ Martin McGuinness

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

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

I am here to give my players the little push they need, just like they needed long ago, when first learning the art of the swing. All you needed then was a little push, and quickly you were pumping away, flying higher and higher, without any more help from the 'coach.' ~ John Kessel

I hate the fact that public schools like the one I went to have fantastic sports facilities, and state schools don't. That's not fair. That's outrageous. ~ Clare Balding

Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles. ~ Terry Orlick

If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass. ~ Randall "Tex" Cobb

If a manager of mine ever said someone was indispensable, I'd fire him. ~ Charlie Finley

Billions of people are living on the earth today with the knowledge of mathematics, physics, and biology. They have the knowledge of stocks market, the knowledge of politics, engineering, law, and medicine. They know about fashion, sports, arts, music and a lot more other aspects of life. However, the sad reality is that a greater percentage of these people do not know who they are nor why they exist. They do not know for what purpose they are on the earth and where they are heading ~ Clement Ogedegbe

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure. ~ Lee Trevino

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it. ~ Serena Williams

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort. ~ Mark Cuban

In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget. ~ Walt Disney

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair ~ Nelson Mandela

Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journalists such as Maria Bartiromo to celebrity status and made CNBC to investors what ESPN is to sports fans. ~ Gary Weiss

There's two kinds of pain in sports: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. ~ Jeff Blatnick

It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power. Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature; and what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated. ~ Agostino Scilla

I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear end. This comes from hard, hard work. ~ Wilt Chamberlain

You stare down your opponent, lights twinkle, but you don't blink. This is all you and that's all him, and it ain't all that much. An instant later you wake up in a hospital. Your anus hurts. Long live sports. ~ Jarod Kintz

Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game ... One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations and rise to the occasion with consistency and a competitive spirit. ~ Tom Seaver

For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life. ~ Meghan Daum

hate comes at you when you make any stand. It's the price of trying to be heard. If that's the case, and we accept it, then it's a waste of emotion to react to the negativity. The hate, the rage that people throw at you only has power if you let it affect you. ~ Michael Bennett

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the authors, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his. ~ Bennett Cerf

Nutrition has always played a huge role in my life. I became a vegetarian when I was 13 and then got my entire family to become vegetarians. And I have always been active my whole life. I genuinely enjoy sports and I spend time on my total gym. ~ Christie Brinkley

I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport. ~ George Foreman

These are the highlights in a lifetime of following sports. Hilarity. The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game I commend highly ... if you have ever seen the great women s teams of Japan and Russia or the equally good men's teams of Cuba and East Germany, you know how exciting this playground game, which requires so little equipment, can be. ~ James A. Michener

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. ~ Muhammad Ali