Funny Inspirational Sports Quotes

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential. ~ George A. Sheehan

Awareness is the novelty of our youth ~ Brian Triptow

We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail. ~ Sara Blakely

And I don't have to hold on with anything more than my toes ~ N.D. Wilson

What's tough is being good every day. ~ Willie Mays

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns. ~ W.S. Gilbert

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. ~ Tommy Lasorda

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. ~ Alfred North Whitehead

Maybe they hate me because I'm too good! ~ Cristiano Ronaldo

I would have grown up to be a gentleman adventurer if I were more of a gentleman. ~ Alex Potvin

When placed in command, take charge. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf

Q: When did you realize you wanted to be a writer?
A: I hate this question, because the answer makes me look like a jerk. The answer exposes me as a jerk. But here it is: the first time I read Twilight, I thought to myself, "If this chick can write a book, then you can!"
One day, Stephanie Meyer is going to give me a bloody nose. I accept that like I accept that I will one day get wrinkles.
To Stephanie Meyer: Could you come at me from the right side?
That side of my face could use adjusting ... ~ Anna Banks

Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion ~ Henry B. Eyring

Life is never easy for those who dream. ~ Robert James Waller

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game. ~ Pat Conroy

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work. ~ Geoffrey Blainey

I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of the experience, at a sustained level. The experience is incredibly intense because it is so dangerous. ~ Lincoln Hall

I Take Life Very Seriously: One Joke At A Time. ~ Sandra Chami Kassis

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. ~ Lionel Messi

You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory. ~ Eunice Kennedy Shriver

There is no getting around the fact that the moment you are at your very best is the moment you begin to become worse and worse. Others will come along who can run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and you will be forgotten. Your winning moment is dated to die. ~ Charlie Higson

I had no intention of becoming a comedian. I just wanted to make people happy. I tried everything-I shucked oysters, I painted houses, I sold vacuum cleaners. But there was always a voice saying, You should be doing something different. And it was usually my boss and I was being fired. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

I'm just me - the way I am. ~ Louise Sauvage

You spend your TIME to make a DIME. You lose your HEALTH to make your WEALTH, but at the end it is FUNNY because you leave back all your MONEY. ~ R.v.m.

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all. ~ Joan Jett

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~ Hippocrates

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. ~ George Burns

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ~ Fran Lebowitz

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. ~ Hobart Brown

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food. ~ Hippocrates

If everyone listened to me, the world would be a better place. ~ Aviva Moore

The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals ~ Ron Pickering

One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it. ~ Alec Wilkinson

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem? ~ Dustin Hoffman

I think it's just really made me appreciate life more. I've known people die before that and I was really rattled by it but when it hit so close to home ... it was just so different. I just thought about what I really wanted to do. I want to be a pro surfer and that's what I'm going to do. ~ Mick Fanning

And there's no "I love you" message because Steve Ovett has married the girl ~ David Coleman

Insecurity is a funny thing. It makes us into someone we're not as a way to cope with someone we used to be. ~ Maria Goff

Kindness, motherfucker, kindness. ~ Don Roff

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. ~ Alan Perlis

When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn. ~ Gerd De Ley

Sports can unite worlds, tear down walls and transcend race, the past, and all probability. Unlike life, sport matters. ~ Shehan Karunatilaka

You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening - everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, I did that. ~ Ricky Gervais

He has a heart of gold - only harder. ~ Adolphe Menjou

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. ~ C.S. Lewis