Best 7068 quotes in «sports quotes» category

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

Winning is euphoric, but it lasts a short time. You've got to lap it up, then move on to the next thing. I think I've kept winning because I haven't attached myself to past successes.

Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.

With football, you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two-game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

With goals you can create the future in advance.

Within the next five years, I predict major changes in the art world and it will look nothing like it did ten years ago. Just like the sport of skateboarding, the new innovators will define the future. I believe the art world will become more vibrant and usher in a strong healthy market for new works.

With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.

With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.

Without losers, where would the winners be?

Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

With sports and games, you have fun despite working very hard, even despite failing repeatedly. Even the fun of a night out, you have to get somewhere and do all the conversational, social work of being out. There's effort involved. But then when you're finished, you can conclude, "Actually there was something gratifying about the hardship that I just encountered." That discovery of novelty is where the molten core of fun is.

With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.

With sport went beer drinking and gambling - until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of men, that necessity constantly to demonstrate masculine sameness, which provided one of the most flattening sources of uniformity.

With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be.

With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.

With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.

Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Women want to know what's going on, whether it's the guys in the huddle the guys on the couch. One thing that's cool that I've seen as I've grown older is that women now think it is cool to enjoy sports and to sit there and talk the talk and know what's going on.

Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.

World War II was a must win.

wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?' As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.

Wrestling is a one-on-one experience and if something goes wrong you can't point a finger and blame somebody else. What you do is up to you. And yet it's a team sport, because whether your team wins or loses is a result of the cumulative effect of the matches. Wrestling is a great confidence builder because it's not all about strength. You have to use your balance and skill and technique and if you do, you can overcome a lot of muscle and bulk guys, and even those who have natural ability. Basically, you can out-technique an opponent.

Wrecks are going to happen in this business, that's just a risk of the sport. If you can't keep from worrying about it, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Wrestlers Compete as Individuals, Yet the Sport Builds Comradery Like No Other.

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it!

Yeah, I'm not into sports. If someone told me I had athlete's foot, I'd say that's not my foot!

Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.

Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.