Top 59 Greatest Sports Quotes
#1. The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country ... You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.
Tim McCarver
#2. I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.
Tim Burton
#3. I've fought everybody without ducking anyone. I have beaten 10 undefeated guys, and I never was comparing myself to the greatest in the sport. I was not thinking of breaking any records. I'm just enjoying my time in boxing.
Wladimir Klitschko
#4. I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey.
Steve Yzerman
#5. The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.
Ken Doherty
#6. I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.
Bill Russell
#7. I've been very fortunate to play for four great organizations, but New York really takes the cake. Wearing the pinstripes is something that's very special to me, and it's the greatest organization in sports history.
Mark Teixeira
#8. The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties.
Isaac Marion
#9. That's what's great about baseball: some people are exceptional at the game, but still, even people that aren't very athletic, like me - I played Little League! It's one of those games in sports where even if you're not the greatest, you can still play.
Tom Guiry
#11. From sports the greatest thing I've learned is discipline achieves goals.
Desmond Green
#12. You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?
John McGraw
#13. Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
Bear Bryant
#14. Sports Jerseys: To wear another man's name on your back is a subconscious slap in the face to who you are. Don't fantasize about being someone else. Put in the work required to rise to the level of your greatest self.
Steve Maraboli
#15. The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.
Timothy Gallwey
#16. The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.
Omar N. Bradley
#17. The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.
Barry S. Strauss
#18. I wanted to make the world's greatest football undershirt. But I realized that no team sport had equipment for apparel. Apparel was an afterthought.
Kevin Plank
#19. Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential palace. My first position in the union was that of sports secretary.
Evo Morales
#21. Coach may have been the greatest innovator the sport has ever had.
Ken Morrow
#22. My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.
Mark Teixeira
#23. Detroit - and I'm not blowing smoke at anybody - is probably the greatest fan sports town in the country. They'll support anything.
William Clay Ford, Sr.
#24. If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.
C. Vivian Stringer
#25. Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset of all time in any sport that I can think of.
Jim McKay
#26. The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less that that. My ability to concentrate and work toward hat goal has been my greatest asset.
Jack Nicklaus
#27. The greatest owner in professional sports history is Eddie DeBartolo.
Ronnie Lott
#28. If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.
Greg LeMond
#29. Every person working in sports journalism today owes a tremendous debt to Howard Cosell. His greatest contribution was elevating sports reporting out of daily play-by-play and placing it in the larger context of society.
Roone Arledge
#30. I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#31. Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They seemingly always need to compare players of different eras and designate one of them as the greatest player of all time.
Dave McPherson
#32. My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.
Caitlyn Jenner
#33. One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.
Tim Tebow
#34. 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
#35. I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.
Viggo Mortensen
#36. Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game ... One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations and rise to the occasion with consistency and a competitive spirit.
Tom Seaver
#37. Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.
Will McDonough
#38. I'm aware that the World Cup is probably the greatest spectacle in the world of sport, and that's despite the referees that have been found to have fixed games specifically.
David Stern
#39. I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.
Bob Hayes
#40. The 2006 event logo combines the twin spires of Churchill Downs, one of the great signature elements in sports, with the greatest international day of Thoroughbred racing. We look forward to displaying the logo widely throughout the commonwealth of Kentucky, and to our international outlets.
Damon Thayer
#41. I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don't think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete.
Wayne Gretzky
#42. Golfers are the greatest worriers in the world of sport.
Billy Casper
#43. Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls.
Dominique Moceanu
#44. Tension is the greatest curse in sport. I've never had any tension. You give the best you have - you win or lose. What's the difference if you give all you've got to give?
Chief Bender
#45. Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.
Michael Rapaport
#46. In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.
Don Yaeger
#47. Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.
Bruce Lee
#48. Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?
David Beckham
#49. In life and in sports we know that nothing lasts forever. The same year the greatest physical gift (football) the Lord gave me was taken away from me, I was blessed with the greatest gift any of us could have in two beautiful children. I'd take that trade every day of the week.
Peyton Manning
#50. Anytime you've got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal, I think that takes it all. That's the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.
Larry Bird
#51. The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.
Denis Waitley
#52. They say football is America's greatest game, but it's not. The greatest game in America is called opportunity. Football is merely a great expression of it.
Joe Kapp
#53. The opportunity to perform my music for billions of people around the globe will be the greatest highlight of my life, I am honoured to be part of the biggest sports event in the world.
Tiesto
#54. Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.
George Steinbrenner
#55. It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.
Dick Schaap
#56. The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.
John Madden
#57. Baseball is the greatest sport in the world. It is the cleanest, besides affording more people the right kind of amusement than any other. I do not say that because I have made my living at it. I say it from the heart.
Charles Comiskey
#58. Friends should be like a good bra, lifting you up. Bad friends are like sports bras. They can do wonders when you go out dancing or during high-energy times, but one a day-to-day basis they really just smush down some of your greatest assets.
Mamrie Hart
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