Quotes About Giving It Your All In Sports

#1. It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.

John Kessel

#2. My limits know me well enough to stay out of my way.

Ben Mitchell

#3. When I was younger, I played sports and went to camp. As I got older, my parents began to instill in us the importance of giving back to the community, especially those places around the world that are less fortunate than my very privileged life growing up in Los Angeles.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

#4. It never feels good if you don't reach all of your goals, neither in sport, nor in business nor in your personal life. But the key thing is to never give up, we have taken our learnings from 2014 and developed an exciting and promising strategy for the period up until 2020.

Herbert Hainer

#5. I don't know, but I stepped on a scale that gives fortunes and the card read Come back in 15 minutes alone.

Frank Layden

#6. Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.

Carl Honore

#7. I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

Adolph Rupp

#8. The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

Samuel Chadwick

#9. If you're losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one.

Max Gunther

#10. Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.

Nat Hentoff

#11. I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.

Bart Cummings

#12. I don't have concussion problems. I have got a problem with people giving me traumatic blows to the head, that's what I have got a problem with.

Dean McAmmond

#13. I definitely want to direct. This is just another learning experience for me, to get a chance to hear the questions and concerns the directors have, some of their fears. It's a team sport. You have to give everybody what they need so they are able to perform at their best.

Michael B. Jordan

#14. I think the sport of cycling is different then racing. The sport is just about being healthy and giving yourself an outlet so it's a easy sport to do and I think there are more and more women cycling everyday.

Robin Farina

#15. This sport has given me so much that my hope would be to give back as much as I can for as long as I can.

Andre Agassi

#16. The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching.

John Kessel

#17. A player should be disparaged if he gives less than his all, if he doesn't give 100%, no matter what shirt he's wearing. Whether it's your national team, your club, or little league. Yes, there are friendly matches, recreational ones, and so on, but sport in its essence is about giving your best.

Rabih Alameddine

#18. A lot of times people would offer me movies and, because I'm a car freak, I'd look in a magazine and say, 'How much is this car? If you give me this car I'll show up and do the movie' I call 'em 'sports car flicks'.

Ice-T

#19. Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.

Sebastian Coe

#20. So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

Rose Macaulay

#21. 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

#22. Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport with little idea of what we could give or receive.

Stefan Kieszling

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

Lou Holtz

#24. The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

Thomas A. Edison

#25. Some people are so talented and yet they don't even know it. There are so many different aspects to sport and how you can get involved. You might surprise yourself with what you can achieve, so give it go and see what you can do!

Jazmin Carlin

#26. I have three kids, and I'm a coach for a lot of their sports, so I'm around them a lot, but I see friends of mine with older kids and they don't really interact so much, other than giving them a place to live.

Mike O'Malley

#27. Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides ... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it.

Alan Grant

#28. Always believe in yourself and never give up because you don't know what success could be right around the corner.

Jamie Hampton

#29. Beliavsky told me that, when he scolded Misha for giving to the Sports Committee almost all of his prize of several thousand dollars for winning the World Blitz Championship in Saint John, Misha simply replied: 'Well, they asked me for it and I gave it to them.

Genna Sosonko

#30. As someone that was a good ambassador of a growing sport, that always wanted to fight the best fighters and always gave the fans the best he could give.

Fedor Emelianenko

#31. Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and losing is when pressure hits.

Evander Holyfield

#32. I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.

Junior Seau

#33. In wheelchair sports, people thought athletes with disabilities were courageous and inspirational. They never give them credit for simply being competitive.

Jean Driscoll

#34. 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