Quotes About Life Lessons In Sports

#1. There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life.

Heather Mills

#2. The value of the sport and the value of sports in general, with the life lessons, the ups and downs. The depth of the life experience, what athletes are actually offering to us when they come out and play, if you look at a season and go moment by moment.

Willi Smith

#3. Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

Matthew Arnold

#4. Faith only grows through suffering.

Mark Driscoll

#5. The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Albert Camus

#6. An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#7. When we're down and the momentum is stacked against us. Those are the moments when we find out what we're made of. When we learn to trust and lean on each other.

Charles Martin

#8. Who you are as a person far outweighs what you do in an athletic arena.

Chris Matakas

#9. The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

Carl Lewis

#10. Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.

Marg Helgenberger

#11. I can only run at pace of my breath.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Sport ... teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

Fiona Wood

#13. It is the taste of cut steps, bloody fingerprints. Of healed books, smiles on fresh tulips. Of longing and sweet fatigue.

Gwen Calvo

#14. I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

Debbie Reynolds

#15. 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

#16. High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.

Michael Powers

#17. You don't need to play every ball on back foot. Some balls in life deserve to be played on front foot. Every ball needs good judgement to extend the limit.

Amit Ray

#18. The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life.

Robert Kennedy

#19. The team that keeps winning is not the most talented but the most hard-working.

Zoltan Andrejkovics

#20. It's nice to be able to support programs like 5 Hole Threads' in our communities to keep more kids involved in sports. The Life lessons that are learned from being a teammate are so valuable. All kids deserve the chance to experience that.

Dan Ellis

#21. Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot.

Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#22. Choose the body to live in.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Dancing daily is a good physical activity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. Increased physical activity enhances positive energy

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. If you make lots of little changes to your lifestyle, you'll need to make time to have some fun too, otherwise life can get a little boring.

Auliq Ice

#26. The waves of changes propel advancement.

Zoltan Andrejkovics

#27. It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

Terry Pratchett

#28. I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promiise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing ... But later, she will forget her promise. She will forget she had a grandmother.

Amy Tan

#29. And in the incendiary wake of Michael Brown's and Eric Garner's deaths at the hands of white police officers in the summer of 2014, a conventional production of Driving Miss Daisy that in no way subverts the text now seems nothing short of obscene. There

Jordan Tannahill

#30. What I want is to be number one.

Steve Prefontaine

#31. AS WE DRIVE BACK into Portland,

E.L. James

#32. My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.

Scott McCloud

#33. You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.

Amit Ray

#34. We spend 8 hours a day, for 10 months a year, for nearly 17 years sending our kids to school to prepare them for life.
In all of that time there is never a course in overcoming adversity, goal setting, sacrifice, perseverance, teammates, or family.
I guess that's what wrestling is for.

JohnA Passaro

#35. I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.

Teddy Thompson