Best 7068 quotes in «sports quotes» category

You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.

You know, I love wearing heels. I wish I could wear them all the time, but, you know, my sport doesn't really permit it.

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

You know, I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport, you know for me it's just a way of life

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

You know no one ever accomplishes something like this without a lot of help from good people along the way. And this is certainly true in my case, and I would like to thank some of those people.

You know, softball is the other sport I do besides basketball.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

You know, some of the action stuff, I tend to have a pretty good sense of humor about it. Even when I direct and have a lot of pressure, it teaches me to laugh at stuff. I think that comes also from sports, from combat sports, where you've got to learn to laugh at it and take it in stride. Otherwise, you just can't deal with it.

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.

You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it

You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond).

You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate to win a few times. We spend our whole lives trying to conquer something, and we lose a lot more than we win.

You live during the match, and you have strong emotions, but you don't want to get too overexcited. My body's totally flat now. I cannot move anymore. I'm totally exhausted, just because of the tension out there.

You look at all the sporting companies out there. I won't name names, but we know who they are. Good brands and logos and things like that, and they have to start catering to real women. Even in how their sports apparel is designed, and the commercials - you want to look at a commercial and see yourself.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.

You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you ever find an Irishman who is wishy-washy on any one of those, you can make up your mind to it he is not the true article at all.

You measure a player from the head up.

You might be a redneck if your mother has been involved in a fist fight at a high school sports event.

You must allow your players to become the athletes they can be. Don't make them into anything just to become the kind of winners fans, friends and others think they must be.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

You need to enjoy yourself and just get into the routine of keeping fit and enjoying being active. That's always easier once you've made friends in the sport.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.

You need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home. The sport, your rivals, the tyres, your motorcycle, everything changes so instead you need to work more to be stronger. If you don't, you're finished.

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

You need to have a great, strong bladder to call professional sports because, especially in football where, you know, you don't know how long a half's going to last and then the timeouts happen and a incomplete pass.

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

You play to win the game...Hello. You play to win the game.

You play to win the game.

Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.

Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.