Best 7068 quotes in «sports quotes» category

Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Don't dwell on mistakes, because it will only cause more.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.

Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

Don't like when sports interviewers force answers: Are you dedicating this game to your sick grandmother? What's the guy supposed to say?

Don't make excuses, make good.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.

Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

Don't mistake activity for achievement - practice the right way. - John Wooden I only play well when I'm prepared. If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Don't say I don't get along with my teammates. I just don't get along with some of the guys on the team.

Don't tell me you can pitch...pitch. Don't tell me you can sell...sell.

Don't talk too much or too soon.

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy!

Doubters don't win, winners don't doubt.

Do the best work you can do and try not to worry about the fact that you are a woman covering the NFL and you have never played the sport before. Just focus on the story and study, prepare and deliver the best report possible.

Do you believe in miracles?

Do we understand the gravity of the sin of dishonesty? It is not only unchristian, it is anti-Christian...it is anti-Christ! Whether it be lying, or cheating, or robbery or deception; whether it is in the home, in business, in sports, or in the classroom; dishonesty is completely foreign to the teachings of Jesus.

Downhill's the future of the sport. Cross-country's not geared for TV. Some fat guy watching it with a beer in one hand and potato chips in the other is going to say, I can do that. America likes to see people crash.

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.

Do you believe you're a starter or a benchwarmer? Do you believe you're an all-star or an also- ran? If the answers to these questions are the latter, your play on the field will reflect it. But when you've learned to shut off outside influences and believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be.

Do your best, one shot at a time, and then move on.

Do you play football?' Brandon asks. 'No.' 'Baseball?' 'Nope.' Brandon is on a roll and won't stop until he's found the answer he's looking for. 'Tennis?' 'That would be a nada' 'Then what sport do you play?' Carlos puts down his food. Oh, no. He's got a rebellious gleam in his eye as he says, 'The horizontal tango.' ...Alex stands and says through chlenched teeth, 'Carlos let's talk. In private. Ahora.' ....Brandon turns to my dad with big, innocent eyes. 'Daddy, do you know how to do the horizontal tango?

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

Drinking is not a spectator sport.

Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.

Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

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.

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!... Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it... and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!

Even with my non-believing teammates, there is a great amount of unity and I truly believe that's God working. It's really cool in team sports when you're united around a belief or something you want to accomplish.

Even when I played sports when I was little, I played to win. Otherwise, what's the point of putting the pads on and going to practice? I don't understand.

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.