Best 7068 quotes in «sports quotes» category

Surfers are in tune with the weather because if there's a storm coming, there are waves coming. I love the rain.

Surpassing my achievements feels incredible; I want to replicate that again and again.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

Sure they say we (women) are life givers not takers, but guess what, most women can multi-task and be life givers and fighters. Boxing is not a life-taking sport. Boxing is not a violent sport; it's an art, a dance, a science. Sometimes the smarter boxer wins and sometimes the stronger boxer wins. Of course aggression is a feminine quality. It's a quality that exists in human beings whether they are men or women.

Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.

Surround our children with a message of honor

Surrender. That's an interesting term. We tend to see all forms of surrender as negative--war, sports, highway on-ramps. You'd never hear us describing a relationship as a type of surrender. But maybe we should. Is it wrong to cede the solo to the duet. Surrender doesn't mean you lose, only that you no longer wish to fight.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

Sweet are the uses of adversity

Swimming isn't everything - winning is.

Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.

Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

Take a strong wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as strong. Take a quick wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as quick. Take a technical wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as technical. No matter what kind of wrestler, everyone is afraid of getting tired. It's those who learn to perform when they're tired that find success.

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

Taking part in these types of programs is crucial to our youth and crucial to the future of this game.

Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.

Talking about and analyzing sports isn't the same as playing sports.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else.

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

Teachers all over the nation are doing the job they are asked to do, but one they are not really prepared to do. To teach volleyball as a physical activity that is also a positive experience. If you care about volleyball, help these teachers have fun and learn more of this great game. Teach the teachers.

Team guts always beat individual greatness.

Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone.

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up

Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.

Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.

Tennis is a traditional game. A big sport like tennis does not need too many changes. The game has become too fast, there are hardly any long, interesting rallies these days. So maybe slowing down the courts could help. But you can't really stop a sport from evolving.

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.