Top 100 Play Sports Quotes
#1. When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do.
Frederick Lenz
#2. When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I'd be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my nails, and I'd, like, miss the ball going past me.
Kendall Jenner
#3. I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.
David Boreanaz
#4. I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.
Willie Mays
#5. My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.
Anthony Hopkins
#6. I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man.
Blake Griffin
#7. People think I'm more wild than I am ... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.
Iggy Azalea
#8. My favorite thing about being linked to Oakley is getting to hang with the cool people, the cool athletes - like the X-Games guys. Those guys play sports where they can really hurt themselves, and, well, I just play golf. I'm like the wimpy guy over here.
Bubba Watson
#10. I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
Vince Carter
#11. I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.
Mark Zandi
#12. I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.
Elle Fanning
#13. You can not say you're unhappy because you have to travel, have to play this tournament, having to play sports ... You can't because you chose to play it and you love it. I'm tremendously grateful for the support I have received from my family and the close ones.
Novak Djokovic
#14. You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.
John F. Kerry
#15. I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.
Shaun White
#16. I come from great stock. I didn't come from money. My parents both worked really hard to keep food on the table and give my sister and me opportunities to play sports and see what we were good at.
Rickie Fowler
#17. I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.
Gregg Sulkin
#18. I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general.
Steve Blake
#19. Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.
Lisa Leslie
#20. I like to play music and sleep. But most of all, I love to work ... I don't really play sports, so I like to spend my time playing guitar or piano.
Drake Bell
#21. First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports.
Dominique Wilkins
#22. Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'
Paul Pierce
#23. I encourage girls to play sports and play hard.
Lisa Leslie
#24. I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.
Kevin Costner
#25. I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
Zach Braff
#27. I'm the kind of guy that if I don't work out, I will get bigger and look like one of the guys who used to play sports.
Seann William Scott
#28. I think that every single person should play sports.
Donovan Bailey
#29. For me, sports is a big part of my life. It helped me through high school. It helped me get better grades, because if you don't have good grades, you can't play sports.
David Charvet
#30. There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.
Rebecca Lobo
#31. Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.
Kapil Dev
#32. I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.
Josh Hutcherson
#33. On Sundays, I'm up at five and in the office by six. After the show, around midday, I flip the switch, and it's all family. Our kids play sports, so we're running around.
David Gregory
#34. I don't play sports. The only sports I play is shopping. But there is a lot of walking involved in that ... running sometimes if there's a sale.
Jessica Simpson
#35. I was always very different from the other kids. I have an I.Q. of 156. I didn't play sports. I thought big. I thought I could achieve great things. I don't want to sound megalomaniac, but my whole life is about doing something for the world, from as far back as I can remember.
Chade-Meng Tan
#36. I love both the sun and the moon, day and night. But I enjoy the day the most because I live in Rio and I can play sports.
Rodrigo Santoro
#37. As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
Yael Naim
#38. I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.
Demetri Martin
#39. Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.
Chris Hardwick
#40. Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn't much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did.
Bill Hader
#41. It was just something normal in my family to play sports. It wasn't necessarily forced on us. It was just something we enjoyed.
Marc Bulger
#42. I was a pretty normal high school kid. I just loved to play sports and had opportunities, and the Lord blessed me with talent, and I just tried to take advantage of it.
Matt Holliday
#43. There's nothing I missed out on. I do everything a normal kid does. My parents keep me grounded. I still play sports. I still go to a rec center every day.
Khleo
#44. I'm a very feminine man. I like feminine things. I don't go to strip clubs. I don't drink beer. I don't play sports.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#45. Having the chance to play sports growing up teaches you all kinds of life lessons. It gives young people confidence and instills in them motivation and drive to be the best one can be. It's absolutely invaluable,
April Ross
#46. Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.
Jeff Ament
#47. I'm not looking for anything more than any other guy. I like a good smile. Pretty eyes. She has to be active, like not play-sports active, but she'll play air hockey, do some pool, go for rides on the Santa Monica Pier. I would much rather have fun with her than do the cool thing.
Mitchel Musso
#48. When I used to play sports, I'd be the one cheering the team on, 'Come on, we can beat these guys!' That's just in me.
Joel Osteen
#49. I want to support kids that not a lot of people believe in. Give them an opportunity to do good in school, play sports and get scholarships.
Tim Tebow
#50. I always felt that I had a mission in life. I thought I was born to play sports. Even now, I still feel that must have been my mission because I came through so many close calls where my life could very easily have been ended.
Monte Irvin
#51. I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.
Bernie Mac
#52. I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.
Michael Jordan
#53. My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'
Peyton Manning
#54. I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.
Snoop Dogg
#55. Humility is always one play away.
Tim Foley
#56. I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.
Jack Kemp
#57. I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports - surfing, basketball, it doesn't matter what it is, if you play with people who are better than you, then you get better too. It is the same thing with acting.
Paul Walker
#58. I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
Oleg Cassini
#59. 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
#60. You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if you look in the mirror and can say you give it everything to win, that's it. You're not going to win every time.
Duke Snider
#61. The guys who play it [soccer] are kinda dumb. Why don't they just kick the crap out of the guy in front of the net? Then they could score all they want.
Tite Kubo
#62. It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#63. I think when young kids can see Jason Collins, myself and Michael Sam, and Abby Wambach and Megan Rapinoe and different athletes come out, it will definitely change and encourage younger gay men and women to play the sport.
Robbie Rogers
#64. Never back down, never fear anyone, for the best opponents will help you to play your best.
John Kessel
#65. Because I used to play a lot of sport, I've always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I'd lie and say, 'Yeah, I'm going to the gym.' I literally never did anything.
Jamie Dornan
#67. Golf in India is considered an elite sport. It is not possible for everyone to play in private courses. We need to give opportunities to all who want to play the sport. And for that, we need public golf courses.
Jeev Milkha Singh
#68. I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
Im Dong-Hyun
#69. Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.
Cleveland Amory
#70. You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.
Lou Gehrig
#71. It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.
Troy Vincent
#72. 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
#73. Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed.
Phil Esposito
#74. I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.
Sean Astin
#75. I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.
Simon Gray
#76. Your power play can win you games, and your penalty killers can save you games.
Emile Francis
#77. You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love.
Frederick Lenz
#78. As a player, remember that the bench is not a prison, but an extension of the first group. Concentrate on the quality of your play when you do get into the game. If you play 20 minutes, play the best 20 you can possibly play.
Stan Albeck
#79. As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget.
Junior Seau
#80. Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
Tiger Woods
#81. I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.
Carla Gugino
#82. Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
Magic Johnson
#83. In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover in casual schoolyard play that a girl could outrun most of us or hold her own in basketball or hit a softball - but there were no teams, no coaches, for girls.
George Vecsey
#84. There are guys who play lacrosse, and there are lacrosse players.
Brendan Mundorf
#86. I was born with this heart condition, but it's never affected me - I've been able to play every sport I wanted to, and the doctors were amazed.
Dan Feuerriegel
#87. 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
#88. Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.
Joe Paterno
#89. 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
#90. I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.
Novak Djokovic
#91. No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.
Curtis Joseph
#93. Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.
Darell Hammond
#94. I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.
Jim Abbott
#95. Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
Nikki Giovanni
#96. Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.
Mark Zupan
#97. 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
#98. To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
P.G. Wodehouse
#99. No jockey ever won a race by carrying the horse across the finish line; no coach ever won a volleyball match by touching the ball during play.
John Kessel
#100. In sports ... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
Joe Montana
