Best 7068 quotes in «sports quotes» category

Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children.

Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s. He's the best wing player I've ever coached. But he's done it the right way. He knew he had to work on his body to become a good pro. When he goes into the pros, he'll be physically ready.

Frank Lowy is an institution in Australian sport but judging by this decision he might be visiting a different kind of institution. He has brought the game into disrepute. The sport should not be run by dictators like him.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

Free driving is like an extreme sports version of snorkeling, ... That's about 50 feet deep. And basically what you do is you hold your breath and you wear a weight belt and go down as fast as possible and hold your breath for minutes at a time.

From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

From an athlete's perspective, to cancel the Olympics in regards to the threats would be absolutely devastating - especially since the Olympics - it's really about people meeting together through sports and putting aside their countries' differences for that time.

From a very early age, as far back as I can remember, I always played sports.

From my sketch files I'll find a pose that shows the emotion behind a particular character's story.

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

From sports the greatest thing I've learned is discipline achieves goals.

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.

From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.

Gene Tunney called Gibbons 'the perfect boxer.' Gene said he learned more about the technique of boxing and punching from watching Mike training in New York gymnasiums and in actual fights in Gotham than he learned from any other individual associated with the fistic sport. Moreover, Tunney has told me it was Gibbons' clean-cut victory over Jack Dillon, the mighty light heavyweight from Indianapolis, that inspired in him the belief he could whip Jack Dempsey.

George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.

George [Steinbrenner] is a great guy, unless you have to work for him.

Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport.

Give me a sport that is greater than wrestling, that's more dominant than wrestling and with more champions in fighting than with wrestling. There isn't. The sport that's king is wrestling.

Given the diverse raiment life sports, one never knows what the guises of the gods may be.

Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation's youth.

Goalkeeping is like extreme sports sometimes - you have to let yourself go

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for

Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Act as though it were impossible to fail.

God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own.

God gives all to those, who get up early.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

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

God, my parents, my wife. I don't have a lot of friends, because I'm always moving around. I don't drink, so I don't hang out in bars. But they've been very big in my life. Because they have helped to encourage me.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

Going to Omaha for the College World Series - the people there are tremendous - huge crowds and a lot of excitement. I still remember those days - you make a lot of friends that you never forget when you win a championship like that.

Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what ifs' and dreams of gold medals. That way, no matter what happens, you win.

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.

Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.

Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Golf is no longer a game of hitting the ball, finding it, and hitting it again. There is wind to be measured, whether that means tossing blades of grass in the air or studying the gentle movement of 60-foot high branches. There are caddie conferences for even the most routine shots. There are sports psychologists who tell players not to hit until they're ready.

Golf isn't a sport, it's a game. I'm not saying it's not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it's not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do?