Top 100 Quotes About Your Sport
#1. I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.
Sergei Bubka
#2. As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
Katarina Witt
#3. Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.
Peggy Fleming
#4. The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Peggy Fleming
#5. Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?
Pete Rose
#6. 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
#7. There's not enough said about winter runing. Running in the winter is like not giving up when the road gets hard. It's about willpower and perseverance and being faithful to your sport.
Vanessa Runs
#8. It's important to just kind of get away from your sport until you miss it. It's about taking time to enjoy other aspects of life or learn new things. It helps rejuvenate.
Misty May-Treanor
#9. When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
Hannah Kearney
#10. I think every athlete wants to get sponsored. If you do really well in your sport, then I think sponsorship can help you get rewarded in that sense: doing what you can for your sponsor. It's just another achievement in life.
Bianca Walkden
#11. To be a well-rounded person and know what's going on in the world around you, to have a perspective outside of your sport, is important for every athlete. I'm blessed that our parents gave us that.
Venus Williams
#12. Try and maybe write a couple of articles for your local paper. Perhaps you need to go to college to learn some things that might help you on the way. If you've got enthusiasm, determination and you love your sport - why shouldn't you be doing my job?
Jill Douglas
#13. You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.
Elayne Boosler
#14. What's your sport?"
Trey held his chin up, looking very pleased with himself. "Football. A real man's sport.
Richelle Mead
#15. Love, you mock us for your sport.
Sophocles
#16. Do not fall into this trap of early success. Regardless of your current skill level, it is crucial that you continue to work hard so that you will continue to improve. Only by continuing to improve will you give yourself the opportunity to reach your potential in your sport.
Jennifer L. Etnier
#17. When you're good enough in your sport, you have the option to choose your sponsors. Sometimes you pass up a lot of money to support the people you like and the products you want to use but in the end it's worth it!
Travis Pastrana
#18. I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.
Pete Rose
#19. I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.
Nancy Greene
#20. When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be overlooked. I don't train for my looks.
Jennie Finch
#21. You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.
Sergei Bubka
#22. 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
#23. The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal.
Linus Torvalds
#24. The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level.
Mark McMorris
#25. Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.
Dhani Jones
#26. Business is a sport and I want to win. I want to kick your ass. I may not win every game. But I certainly am going to try.
Mark Cuban
#27. Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?
Bill Maher
#28. Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.
Roger Bannister
#29. Climbing is a full-body sport from your fingers to your toes, but at the same time, it's like a dance on the rock. It's about being strong and fit but also graceful and elegant and efficient on the rock.
Chris Sharma
#30. Competitive Skaters must be prepared for a lot of work, challenges, self-discipline, and motivation. The desire must be there, but more importantly, your love for the sport.
Oksana Baiul
#31. I love that fact that Kayla actually persevered and went back to her sport," she said. "That's the role models. Sometimes, things like that happen and what do you do? Do you crumble with your life or do you go forward? Hee said she chose to go forward.
Dana Hee
#32. It's an individual sport (golf), so it's the exact opposite of baseball. If you hit a bad shot, you can't say, 'Well, this happened.' It's just you. It's your shot. You can't point the finger at anybody but yourself.
Albert Belle
#33. The aspect of sport that you learn is that you have your good times and your bad times, but you share it with great people.
George Gregan
#34. I think the key is never being satisfied with your skills and you have to constantly learn. I say this all the time, I sound like a broken record, but if you are not getting better in this sport you are getting worse
Kenny Florian
#35. Any physical practice can be a competitive sport. What level you can take postures to create the maximum challenge and show your maximum skill, maximum control - it's not a combat game. It's a benefit to you.
Rajashree Choudhury
#36. Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.
Lauren Oliver
#37. Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can for the rest of your life. It's kind of a lame thing to say, but it really is.
Lance Mountain
#38. It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.
Kaley Cuoco
#39. Looking good is important. We're our own premium brand as professional athletes, so you want to be thoughtful about presentation and represent yourself and your city and sport as best you can.
C. J. Wilson
#40. You've got to be dedicated to train as hard as you can, for as long as you can, because in any sport, and especially this environment, there's a lot of contact. It's all about conditioning and good preparation to keep your body in the best condition possible to play games.
Filo Tiatia
#41. When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.
William J. Clinton
#42. Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.
Shawnee Smith
#43. Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.
Guy Forget
#44. You really don't do anything else in your life; it's a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport.
Estella Warren
#45. When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down, Creep home and take your place there, The spent and maimed among: God grant you find one face there You loved when all was young.
Susanna Kearsley
#46. I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link.
Jon Bon Jovi
#47. Tough guy, if brooding was a sport, you'd have gold medals with scowling faces lining the walls of your room.
Julie Kagawa
#48. One of the things about my sport that's important is consistency - being able to do your routines consistently and training consistently. If you change it up or try to make everything more intense because the Olympics is coming up, you tend to put too much pressure on your mind and your body.
Jonathan Horton
#49. I like to talk. Talking is kind of my thing. If talking had been a sport option at Wexford, I would have been captain. But sports always have to involve running, jumping, or swinging your arms around. You don't get PE points for the smooth and rapid movement of the jaw.
Maureen Johnson
#50. The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
#51. Look, I'm the DD tonight, but I'm offering to be more than just your driver. I'll be your bodyguard, and your bartender, and most importantly, your friend. I promise to look out for you tonight, Wellsy.
Elle Kennedy
#52. Playing sports is a good thing for ordinary people; sport played at the professional level is not good for your health. It pushes your body to limits that human beings are not naturally equipped to handle. ==========
Anonymous
#53. Look here, old sport," he broke out surprisingly. "What's your opinion of me, anyhow?" A little overwhelmed, I began the generalized evasions which that question deserves.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#54. In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire's call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go your way, and sometimes they don't.
Dot Richardson
#55. Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.
Lee Haney
#56. Power, power was what I wanted then, sport was what I wanted, I wanted to wring out your tears, your humiliation,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#58. There is no truth in the idea that the person who hits the most balls will become the best golfer. Golf is a bizarre sport. You can work for years on your game, without making any improvement in your score.
Fred Couples
#59. Lion's mane mushrooms are not your classic-looking cap-and-stem variety. These globular-shaped mushrooms sport cascading teeth-like spines rather than the more common gills.
Paul Stamets
#60. Presence' is actually very important in international sport. It is one thing just being there in the middle, but it is another making people aware of your 'presence'. It is about body language and radiating confidence, something that the West Indian batting legend Viv Richards would personify.
Sachin Tendulkar
#61. 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
#62. I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around lying on your couch in a neurotic stupor all day, I'd take an interest.
Colson Whitehead
#63. Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.
David Beckham
#64. We are civilized animals, right? Then why do we continue to slaughter for sport? What if you were a Chicken, how would you feel? I grew up in a Chicken Coop and I was not a Chicken at first, until I was faced with your World!
Buckethead
#65. You keep meaning to cultivate an expertise in spectator sport. More and more you realize that sports trivia is crucial to male camaraderie. You keenly feel your ignorance. You are locked out of the largest fraternity in the country.
Jay McInerney
#66. It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress.
Dorothy Draper
#67. I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old to chase your dreams. And three is it looks like a solitary sport but it takes a team.
Diana Nyad
#68. This is a sport where attack and defense that uses fists. Opponents punch at each other and block the punches. The goal is to knock out your opponent. Typically, those who engage in boxing are of equal weights and skill levels.
Jenny River
#69. Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.
Caroline Wozniacki
#70. To implement a new sport aside your tradition takes time. You definitely need a strategy for the entire country. You need highly qualified coaches for all regions that work with the same concept.
Berti Vogts
#71. The Greatest" is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.
Mike Parry
#72. Kyle held out his hand and Reid shook it like a good sport, but he made sure to add a little extra pressure and a meaningful stare in the universal male Don't-f**k-with-this-chick-or-I'll-eat-your-heart-for-breakfast-with-my-Wheaties look.
Gina L. Maxwell
#73. Really, if you get in the ring and box with someone for real, I don't think it is a sport. As far as professional fighters, you are literally putting your life on the line.
Ving Rhames
#74. Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
Dave Barry
#75. I think racing is a sport that either your in or your out. Its either you are with the pack or you are off the pack.
Robin Farina
#76. There are a lot of leg strains on the inside of the legs. There's a lot of pressure on your legs and knees. Shoulders are another big thing. We play a physical sport and those are the areas that go.
Gerad Adams
#77. Stay healthy, do sports and above all have fun while doing sport. Competing or just for fun, whatever, simply enjoy and try your best. Working hard, working well with achievable goals normally pays off. Believe in the people that are with you and listen to those who have more experience.
Rafael Nadal
#78. I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.
Rick Perlstein
#79. There are lots of positives to come out of playing all sports, not just football. Team games can offer you different life skills than an individual sport can. Football improves your time management - you have to be places on time and disciplined in terms of training.
Hope Powell
#80. Videogames based on golf have often been viewed as, to mangle a phrase, a good walk through a virtual world spoiled. Connecting with your virtual golfers has often been as hard for gamers as understanding the sport itself.
Rob Manuel
#81. Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy.
Clive Swift
#82. You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team.
Alonzo Mourning
#83. In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.
Willie Mays
#84. I am not mortal. I do not play by your rules. I have killed and hunted men for sport. Do not mistake me for a human woman, princeling.
Sarah J. Maas
#85. You're not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I think we have to learn more about it. Part of it is rules, part of it is equipment, part of it is medical studies, knowing more about the brain.
John Madden
#86. In my opinion, the power of the mind in sport is vital. If you can overpower those physical risks mentally, you can get your body round it physically. I've made my body do things because of my mind that it shouldn't have been able to do.
Tony McCoy
#87. I think it's important to cross train. Surfing is a good cross training sport for your shoulders. I don't think I know of any other football player who does it, who can go and paddle out past the sets.
Troy Polamalu
#88. It's amazing how just dressing differently can affect your influence; dress like a beggar and your assumed poverty gains you looks of contempt; dress in gold-lined robes and people are more willing to accommodate you; sport armour and you look strong, dutiful, and prepared.
A.J. Darkholme
#89. I would say go for it because it is a fantastic job. It's a wonderful opportunity to go and get involved with sport at whatever level. What I would say is, if you can, go and work with your local radio station covering local sporting events.
Jill Douglas
#90. Gambling is a fascinating sport. When you are winning, you are like a human hurricane, nothing can stand in your way. You defy the Gods, or do you? In fact you impress them, as Bukowski said. When you are losing, you are an insignificant gimp.
Robert Black
#91. Bodybuilding is not just a sport; it's a way of life. If every aspect of your life is not focused on making the sacrifices necessary to build your best physique, you will ultimately fail and never reach your full potential.
Robert Cheeke
#93. Smile, tip your traditional hat, and enjoy your time by the water.
Fennel Hudson
#94. Everyday on the bike is a different day. Just when you think your on top, you find yourself towards the back of the pack. It is probably the hardest sport I ever done it continues to be challenging and different.
Robin Farina
#95. Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
Cara Black
#96. Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#97. The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your gluttony, and set them to fight one with another till they die, and count it a sport and a pleasure to behold them worry one another.
Tom Tryon
#98. 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
#99. Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.
Patrick Rothfuss
#100. In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself.
Herbert Wind
