Top 100 A Sport Quotes
#1. Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.
Bill Toomey
#2. We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It's part of the game, it's what I love about it ... and I'd hate to see it go.
Ben Hannant
#3. Never tell your reader what your story is about. Reading is a participatory sport. People do it because they are intelligent and enjoy figuring things out for themselves.
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George V. Higgins
#4. Mathematics, you see, is not a spectator sport. To understand mathematics means to be able to do mathematics. And what does it mean [to be] doing mathematics? In the first place, it means to be able to solve mathematical problems.
George Polya
#6. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw
#7. My greatest influences in my sport have been two former number one English lady darts players, Deta Hedman and Mandy Solomons. Deta helped me at international events and both helped me to cope with the big occasion which gave me the confidence I needed to become a champion.
Trina Gulliver
#8. In this sport, in this life, I think heart takes you a lot further than skill and technique ... Just digging down deep will take you a lot further in life.
Clay Guida
#9. Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.
Paul Ryan
#10. I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.
Sue Wicks
#11. I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#12. Climbing is a full-body sport from your fingers to your toes, but at the same time, it's like a dance on the rock. It's about being strong and fit but also graceful and elegant and efficient on the rock.
Chris Sharma
#13. Caleb had been my imperfection, with his slightly Americanized British accent, and the way he could play any sport and quote any philosopher. He was such a mix of class and jock, romance and jerk, it made me crazy.
Tarryn Fisher
#14. In Chicago and across the country, whites looking to achieve the American dream could rely on a legitimate credit system backed by the government. Blacks were herded into the sights of unscrupulous lenders who took them for money and for sport.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#15. If eye fucking were a sport, I would win the gold.
Felicia Fox
#16. A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result.
Alexander Morozevich
#17. My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.
Sally Pearson
#19. Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.
Al Gore
#20. You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.
Lynn Davies
#21. It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.
Jack Buck
#22. I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When you play basketball seriously, a lot of times, through the summer season, you continue playing. So that replaced me playing baseball.
Chadwick Boseman
#23. Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.
Neve Campbell
#24. Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine! Softball is amazing that way as a sport. Everyone on the field has a slightly different ability that makes them perfect for their position.
Jennie Finch
#25. In a darkening world where the shadows of violence, political expediency, materialism and junk culture grow ever longer, sport as it is practised by its good pros remains a bastion of decency, a place where virtue is rewarded and cheating exposed.
Eamon Dunphy
#26. The World Cup only comes around once every four years and is the absolute pinnacle of our sport. It is something we dream about as players. It is a reason why many of us started playing this game. I know myself, my teammates will be focused on what's ahead and what's at stake.
Jozy Altidore
#27. The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.
Dominique Moceanu
#29. It's amazing to be able to play the sport that I grew up loving so much and that I have a strong passion for. I'm just having a ball. There's a lot of pressure that comes with being in the spotlight and being a superstar and a role model, but I'm enjoying it.
Reggie Bush
#30. I couldn't stop thinking about blue eyes and the way he smelled, his scent was a mix of liquor, winter fresh and Nautical sport.
Glenna Maynard
#31. In my opinion any activity during which you can enjoy a beverage is not a sport. It is a party.
Michael Thomas Ford
#32. That's exactly the reason I'm leaving RCR because you've got those punk-ass kids coming up. They've got no respect for what they do in this sport and they've had everything fed to them with a spoon.
Kevin Harvick
#33. It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.
Kaley Cuoco
#34. We're all doing it for the love of the sport. We want to make Canada proud. I'm so fortunate to skate in a country like Canada.
Cindy Klassen
#35. A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.
Robert Kiyosaki
#36. Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it right.
Barry S. Strauss
#37. I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.
Fred Perry
#38. If reading counted as a sport, I'd be a gold medalist.
Deb Caletti
#39. If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.
Olga Korbut
#40. watch William's beloved sport, but to him televised football was no more interesting, or even narratively intelligible, than a flea circus, so he got up and went to the kitchenette to do the other stations of the Yuletide cross.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#41. I'm just tired of being disappointed by guys. I don't understand it. A breakup via text??!!" "I know. He's not playing the game of life on the same level as you. He's not even in the same sport. And it's better to know it now.
Sheri Fink
#42. It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.
Paula Radcliffe
#43. You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.
Tiger Woods
#44. Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!
Bill Brandt
#45. Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
W.S. Gilbert
#46. Leadership is not a solo sport; if you lead alone, you are not leading.
D.A. Blankinship
#47. The fans in Connecticut are just one of a kind. Not to take away from the fans of any other sport in any other country, but the fans in Connecticut are just diehard fans that you don't get very often and you don't see very often.
Diana Taurasi
#48. Even though people involved in racing think that it has a big sporting stage, it is a minority sport compared to some of the other high-profile events: football, Formula One or golf.
Tony McCoy
#49. I don't agree with the idea that you have to live in a bubble and sacrifice all your time to something if you want to succeed. I need to be interested in things outside my sport, and I need to meet new people. For me, judo is an expression of the harmony I achieve in my life.
Ryoko Tani
#50. The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events.
Denny Hamlin
#51. I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
Oscar Pistorius
#52. All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.
Bill Parcells
#53. Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
Lance Armstrong
#54. It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.
Greg LeMond
#55. Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.
Rashida Jones
#56. Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?
J.K. Rowling
#57. When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#58. Exceed expectations" is such a lispy term. I hope that it never infiltrates the bedroom or sport.
Grant McLachlan
#59. Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.
Bill Watterson
#60. I treat golf as a sport. I let other people treat it like a hobby.
Tiger Woods
#62. I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.
Ann Coulter
#63. It would seem that very few good things in life come from our accepting the present moment as it is. To become educated, we must be motivated to learn. To master a sport requires that we continually improve our performance and overcome our resistance to physical exertion. To
Sam Harris
#64. Baseball loyalists cite the game's legendary numbers - 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits - as evidence of the sport's elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number.
Stephen Rodrick
#65. As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
Caity Lotz
#66. The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
William Cowper
#67. For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.
Jon Hamm
#68. What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
#69. When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.
John Cleese
#70. 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.
Ginger Rogers
#71. Maybe." I shrug. "But what I meant was, can't you use the makeup to cover it?"
Miles rolls his eyes and scowls. "Oh, so I can sport a huge flesh-colored beacon instead? Would you look at this thing? There's no disguising it. It's got it's own DNA! It's casting shadows!
Alyson Noel
#72. To brim with hope, to cultivate just one small kernel of faith, to sport a touch of confidence, and to have one's innate material embedded with layers of feisty are all that makes for the plucky kind of courage that means anything in the end.
Connie Kerbs
#73. I have lots of favorites movies. I say this only because it's a favorite movie because it's a sport I love. I'm a huge baseball fan. There are movies I like as much as this, but I sort of single this movie out because I'm a baseball nut, and that's 'Field of Dreams.'
Rick Santorum
#74. I've learned that the effort sportsmen and women put in is incredible. Their commitment to their sport is phenomenal. Sometimes as a viewer, as a sports fan, you only see the end result.
Jill Douglas
#75. I don't want to be alone, I whispered. The second those words left my mouth, Vivvie flew across the room. She hugged me like hugging was a contact sport.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#76. No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.
Tom Watson
#77. Most Bolton students were scions of the city's wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of their pampered, priveliged world, and many of our classmates were quick to remind us of that fact. Taunting the "boat kids" was practically a varsity sport.
Kathy Reichs
#78. I wanted to make a film that wouldn't just appeal to Formula One fans. That's what the great sports documentaries do - 'Hoop Dreams,' 'When We Were Kings' - they're human dramas first, sport second, if at all.
Asif Kapadia
#79. I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.
Rachel Griffiths
#80. There's a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don't compete at the highest level of sport to feel comfortable about losing, but you behave in a civil way when it goes wrong because that is the flip side.
Sebastian Coe
#81. I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.
John McLaughlin
#82. Karch inspired his partners, his opponents and the world of volleyball players to be better than they were, to be great ... In the end, who could do more for a sport than that?
Mike Dodd
#83. My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.
Roger Bannister
#84. Is a BJ adultery? What? Did I miss a day of school? Of course it is! Oral sex is adultery like Curling is an Olympic sport. The only thing is, oral sex should be in the Olympics because it's much harder than Curling, and if you're good at it, you DESERVE a medal!
Lewis Black
#85. I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.
Haruki Murakami
#86. As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.
Monica Lewinsky
#87. Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan.
Rory McIlroy
#88. I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.
Troy Polamalu
#89. We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.
Alberto Salazar
#90. I like to think about music as a sport. But only in terms of golf, as far as the course being music and me being the golfer. So it's competitive but only with yourself. With the last one doing well, it made it a challenge to feel like I was improving in some way.
Panda Bear
#91. The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.
Roger Bannister
#92. I learned a long time ago from when I did 'Seinfeld' never to take anything seriously, and to be part of the joke is the best way to show what a good sport I was.
Marlee Matlin
#93. Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
Robert Redford
#94. Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
#95. A true champion of love and sport wears it proudly in all aspects of life.
Jennifer Ott
#96. 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.
Billie Jean King
#97. There are very few sports where you can find that tranquility. Some people find that in golf, but when you're in the water it's such a difference from the golf course or the basketball court. That's what makes surfing unique over any other sport.
Troy Polamalu
#98. The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.
Curtis Jackson
#99. Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?
Pete Rose
#100. What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
Rahul Dravid
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