Best 7068 quotes in «sports quotes» category

I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.

I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the same supports as any other addiction.

I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I wonder why there aren't more, better sports novels.

I do think we can be a little less PC when it comes to sports, though. Just once I want to hear an announcer go 'God, black people are fast. Holy cow! All of them. They're fast. Back to you Bob.'

I doubt that I would have been successful in my career and happy in my personal life if I hadn't prioritized health and fitness. Staying active ensures mental preparedness and the courage to try new things. It helped me to stay focused on work but also to have fun and try new approaches and explore new places. That's the spirit behind Virgin Sport - we wanted to introduce fitness activities that are enjoyable, accessible and part of your overall lifestyle.

I'd really like to get to do some fighting, some martial arts training, because I think that would be really fun I do gymnastics and ballet, and I'm very, very into the physically acrobatic end of sport.

I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?

I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.

I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf

I encourage girls to play sports and play hard.

I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.

I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete.

I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do

I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.

I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting.

I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.

I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

If a man can beat you, walk him.

If a manager of mine ever said someone was indispensable, I'd fire him.

I fancy our chances at the European Championships.

If and when I decide to retire I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.

If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.

If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

If at this moment you simply made up your minds that you were handsome, beautiful, strong, dangerous, powerful, that you knew everything there was to know, you were totally capable in any job that you undertook or any sport you undertook-if you really believed that, and you can believe it, some of your faces would change physically before my eyes.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.

If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.

If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

I feel kind of sorry for those kids who just play one sport growing up.