Hilarious Sports Quotes

Ray Lewis is the type of guy, if he were in a fight with a bear I wouldn't help him, I'd pour honey on him because he likes to fight. That's the type of guy Ray Lewis is. ~ Shannon Sharpe

He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him. ~ Scottie Pippen

The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level. ~ Chuck LaMar

I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted ~ George Best

That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on. ~ John Lambie

I want your heart, I want to eat your children. ~ Mike Tyson

Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject. ~ Shelby Metcalf

I never go into a race expecting to win, but I do go in expecting to fight. ~ Chrissie Wellington

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA. ~ Marion Jones

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game. ~ Herb Kohl

I'm not into sports. I mean ... I like Gatorade, but that's as far as it goes. ~ Mitch Hedberg

It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is. ~ Ian Millar

My whole life I've actually been training to be a stunt man without realising it. I've always loved extreme sports, and I now I get paid for it. ~ Steve Truglia

God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport. ~ Michael Wilbon

Growing up in Minnesota, I had a lot of freedom to run around, and we had go-carts and four-wheelers and all that stuff. I like that adrenalin-rush stuff. I did a little bit of dance, but mostly sports. ~ Beth Riesgraf

Sports make you sweat and smell. Stay in school, use your brain. Be a thinker, not a stinker. ~ Apollo Creed

Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family. ~ Nancy Kerrigan

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days. ~ Roger Bannister

Sporting achievements bestow a sense of unification on the cultures and societies in which they take place and create an outpouring of nationalism and pride. ~ Richard Attias

Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed but in relaxing and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and 'natural' as opposed to self-conscious and studied. ~ Maxwell Maltz

I don't think I really knew how fit I was when I was a kid. I rode with my dad quite long distances and I've been racing since the age of nine, so we did a lot of sport growing up. My earliest memories of my dad are watching him race, so it was inevitable when we were old enough that my brother and I would get on bikes. ~ Victoria Pendleton

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential. ~ Bobby Knight

An hour later, a nameless, cold-faced man returned with a tray of fresh pasta, warm bread, and a few bags of brand new comfort clothes: yoga pants, tees, a few sports bras, and ... pink thong underwear? Well, of course. Wouldn't want to be held prisoner and have panty lines. ~ Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. ~ Greg Maddux

Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing ~ Albert Schweitzer

Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport. ~ Guy Forget

Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds. ~ Daley Thompson

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions? ~ Jane Austen

The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to move to the same beat. The athlete wanted to check what has been described as the ultimate workout. The romantic craved seeing if the quirkiness of the sport - there is after all, little practical value to oarsmanship in the postindustrial age - stirred his blood. ~ Barry S. Strauss

It's you and me, and all you have to do is breathe. I'm going to take care of everything else. ~ Melissa Cutler

I am a huge sports fan. ~ Kris Allen

Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes. ~ Michelle Kwan

God gives all to those, who get up early. ~ Anna Kournikova

I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor. ~ Mats Sundin

It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close. ~ Jesse Owens

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness. ~ Graeme Le Saux

It wasn't until after I received my education that I seriously looked at sports entertainment as a way to make a career for myself. And they've got to take it in stride. It's very much like acting or playing professional sports: One percent of one percent of the people who try out for it can actually say they make their living off of doing it. ~ John Cena

Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that. ~ Mats Sundin

Charlie and I discovered at a really young at that we had a passion for figure skating, and I think that passion drives us to work every day to improve and grow. We have really learned to love our sport more and more, year to year. And the hard work really pays off. ~ Meryl Davis