Top 32 Quotes About Joy In Sports
#1. It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.
Frederick Lenz
#2. Beside my obvious physical structure, I have been told on almost every set I've been on that I am a joy to have around. I grew up as a team player on team sports. Later as a doorman where you had to watch each other's back and trust the guy beside you.
James Preston Rogers
#3. I have to race because racing is a part of me. But I had to learn to race from a place of joy. Not pain. Not sorrow. Not anger. Not to fix things I can't control. But for a connection with other people. With the wilderness. With myself.
Erin Beresini
#4. After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
Earl Blumenauer
#6. I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.
Kevin Costner
#7. When he throws one in from half court and raises his arms triumphantly, spectators' emotions rise in sympathetic gasps of joy; childhood revisited for a brief moment
Brian Triptow
#8. The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.
Gilbert Gottfried
#9. The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport.
Kelly Slater
#10. Kids growing up in today's generation are constantly documenting their experience. It's different - how does that change their sense of self when everything becomes a story that you are telling?
Hal Niedzviecki
#11. No man who really is a man ever cared for the easy task. There is no enjoyment in the game that is easily won. It is that in which you have to strain every muscle and sinew to achieve victory that provides real joy.
Eric Liddell
#12. P57- the oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.
Paulo Freire
#13. I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away.
Dominique Moceanu
#14. I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad.
Roger Milla
#15. The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.
Eduardo Galeano
#16. To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
Cecil Taylor
#17. Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere; and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are laughing; and little children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville- great Casey has struck out.
Ernest Lawrence
#18. I have three joys in my life: work, sport and food. All these come in one and do not make a hobby.
Mikhail Prokhorov
#19. Sports are, and should be, a joy. And it delights me that the joy I felt through the years of broadcasting games was projected onto the audience.
Marty Glickman
#20. First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.
Julian Castro
#21. Sport is quite a simple thing. It is play, and in play, people of all ages find the chance to engage their most profound emotions-love, fear, excitement, disappointment, anger and joy.
Timothy Shriver
#22. Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth
the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#23. Why should we not shep naches from the accomplishments of our machines? This vicarious joy or success sounds somewhat odd, but it shouldn't be. We get excited when our sports team wins a game; why should it disturb or disappoint us when our creations turn out to be more accomplished than ourselves?
China Mieville
#24. All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.
David Stern
#25. Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
#26. Sport, at its best, at its most human, is able to inspire an innocence and joy that is unique to each of us.
Richard J. Corman
#28. It is in experiencing and accepting the pain of defeat, that we may truly acknowledge the joy of victory.
Andre Bramble
#29. Involvement in my kids' sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I've also been able to coach all three of them in baseball and basketball, something that has strengthened our bonds and given me indescribable joy. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Thomas Perez
#31. My good health, coupled with joy of tobogganing and my desire to be the best, has helped me stay in professional sport for so long.
Armin Zoggeler
#32. The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.
Eduardo Galeano
