Sports Best Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.

Chuck D

#5. In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

Norm MacDonald

#6. If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

Vince Lombardi

#7. The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#8. 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

#9. I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.

Gail Simmons

#10. My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

Earl Weaver

#11. It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.

Bernie Ecclestone

#12. Definitely, injuries are tough, and they happen to every athlete in every sport. The best athletes put it behind them and keep pushing forward. I haven't really had a choice; I've had so many injuries. And the love of BMX, I haven't wanted to stop no matter what.

Tory Nyhaug

#13. One shouldn't be afraid to lose; this is sport. One day you win; another day you lose. Of course, everyone wants to be the best. This is normal. This is what sport is about. This is why I love it.

Oksana Baiul

#14. There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

B.C. Forbes

#15. The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.

George Herbert

#16. I know that when I have had whatever run-ins I have had throughout my career, I have had them because I have done the things that I feel like I need to do to be the best, and that is why I am in this sport, that is what drives me.

Brad Keselowski

#17. Like books, sports give people a sense of having lived other lives, of taking part in other people's victories. And defeats. When sports are at their best, the spirit of the fan merges with the spirit of the athlete.

Phil Knight

#18. Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.

Mia Hamm

#19. 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

#20. I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.

Jerry Rice

#21. A lot of times the expectations of you are so high that no matter what you do you are never going to be able to live up to those expectations. So you better go out and do the best you can and enjoy it.

John Elway

#22. You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

Muhammad Ali

#23. The best thing about Sachin Tendulkar is that he's completely rooted, down to earth, and a thorough gentleman. He's probably the best thing to have happened to Indian cricket and maybe Indian sport as a whole.

Sania Mirza

#24. But I don't want to be compared to anyone like to impose my own style of play and do the best for myself and for the club here.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#25. Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

Michael Rapaport

#26. I think it's really important for this great state of baseball to reach out to people of all walks of life to make sure that the sport is inclusive. The best way to do it is to convince little kids how to
the beauty of playing baseball.

George W. Bush

#27. The best athletes in any sport take stretching very seriously before and after matches. Stretching is instrumental in any athlete's physical success.

Jozy Altidore

#28. I would visualize the best- and worst-case scenarios. Whether I get disqualified or my goggles fill up with water or I lose my goggles or I come in last, I'm ready for anything.

Michael Phelps

#29. In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.

Sam Huff

#30. I love eating it - grilled chicken, pasta, rice, and other foods that give me long term energy. Every once in a while, my sweet tooth gets the best of me and I have to snack on some candy. Beverage wise, I stick to sports drinks, water, milk, and juice.

Derrick Rose

#31. Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

Yao Ming

#32. The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. The Olympics are the most important race. They're each four years, and everybody wants to show their best performance.

Tina Maze

#33. Some of our best fighters are not only Puerto Rican greats but all-time greats of the sport. Carlos Ortiz, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez and Felix 'Tito' Trinidad and many others have made Puerto Rican boxing what it is today, and I am only an extension of their greatness.

Miguel Cotto

#34. To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes are those who truly enjoy what they are doing and display a tremendous amount of work ethic. They continue to persevere in spite of setbacks and never lose sight of their ultimate goal.

Dianne Holum

#35. The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#36. Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week so it was hard to determine what would happen. I could not believe it, I went into shock, I'm still in shock.

Leisel Jones

#37. There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level ... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.

Alonzo Mourning

#38. You can accomplish so much with a strong will. Just do your best, no matter what. Don't let negative thoughts creep in. Don't talk yourself out of anything.

Rebecca Twigg

#39. Fight if you must, work hard, give your best but never quit in the face of difficulty.

Sanchita Pandey

#40. I would be very proud if, one day, I'm held in the same esteem as George Best or Beckham. It's what I'm working hard towards.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#41. You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it.

Maurice Greene

#42. Perform the best you can for when you find that you perform your best, there is still so much more in volleyball to do better, harder, faster, and smarter. It is just like when you go for a long journey. You go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you can see farther.

John Kessel

#43. The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.

Bob Costas

#44. There are some times when sports rises to the level of news and when sports broadcasters acquit themselves as well as the best news broadcasters do, they aren't there to dramatize. They're there as journalists.

Bob Costas

#45. Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Roger Kahn

#46. Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I'll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.

Tibor Benedek

#47. In sports, you play up to the level of your opponent, and I did some of my best work with Chevy, and I'm so grateful to have worked opposite him. He was a handful and a challenge, and he made me step up to the plate.

Cindy Morgan

#48. [On softball:] Diamonds are a dyke's best friend.

Yvonne Zipter

#49. He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.

Jimmy Cannon

#50. 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

#51. I pray not for victory, but to do my best.

Amos Alonzo Stagg

#52. I don't need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet and I'll show you what I can do.

Lionel Messi

#53. Either you were the best of the best or you were nothing, and somehow that didn't seem right.

Tim Green

#54. Nadal's the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game.

Novak Djokovic

#55. I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!

Winston Churchill

#56. The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings.

Tony La Russa

#57. Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art.

Tom Bissell

#58. I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.

Bruce Dickinson

#59. My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.

Debi Thomas

#60. When God wants me to lose, then that's when I'll lose. But until then, I'm going to be at the top of my game and keep working hard anddedicating myself to the sport of boxing and to being the best entertainer that I can be.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#61. It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.

Patrick Kane

#62. Do the best work you can do and try not to worry about the fact that you are a woman covering the NFL and you have never played the sport before. Just focus on the story and study, prepare and deliver the best report possible.

Megan Alexander

#63. Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Babe Ruth

#64. You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

John McGraw

#65. Arizona was the best place. I like the competition in baseball, and the football program has been great for the past five years. I think I'll be playing as a freshman in both sports, and I think I can play with them.

Terry Vaughn

#66. This town needs to win at something. We need to feel, just once, that we're best. I know it's a game. But that's not all it is. Not always.

Fredrik Backman

#67. The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.

Tom Udall

#68. Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.

Bobby Knight

#69. All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.

Thomas Jefferson

#70. A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

Jimmy Cannon

#71. He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him.

Scottie Pippen

#72. I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

Brady Anderson

#73. Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

Phil Knight

#74. 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

#75. Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

Joanna Baillie

#76. The person who proclaimed me Best Dressed Man never saw me in my sport outfit.

Robert Pattinson

#77. I think Philly is arguably the best sports town - football town - in America.

Ron Jaworski

#78. Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very best playing in the same generation. It's a rivalry I think that we've never seen in our sport.

Andre Agassi

#79. Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made.

Gabby Douglas

#80. Lacrosse is probably the best sport I ever played.

Jim Brown

#81. Set a goal and make a commitment to meet that goal. Do the best you can, but never forget your roots, never forget where you came from. After you have succeeded, look back and see if there are others that you might help to achieve what you have accomplished.

Larry Holmes

#82. You have to have the mentality of executing your game when you don't feel like there's a lot of hope. I think the best feeling is when somebody pushes you to the limit and you dig down a little bit extra. By the same token, you also need a little luck. Sometimes they come together.

Andre Agassi

#83. I have been amongst the best players in the world for 8 years. None at that level played as many ties as I did.

Amelie Mauresmo

#84. Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there's a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.

Elon Musk

#85. We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

Phil Knight

#86. There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world's best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#87. All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.

Pete Hamill

#88. I went to dance class as a girl because I didn't like sports, but I never did a dance recital in my life. Never, ever, ever. I felt comfortable dancing, and I was happiest dancing, but I was never the best person in the class.

Jennifer Grey

#89. You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.

Rick Pitino

#90. When I got injured, I think I was starting to sense that there was more to the world than just sports. This dream of playing professional soccer probably wasn't the best track for me.

Eric Swalwell

#91. We have the best sporting event in the world in polo, and yet it is weak.

Facundo Pieres

#92. [Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look gorgeous. Some gymnasts think if their arm is bent a little it doesn't matter, but Nemov understands it matters.

Peter Vidmar

#93. You can't do sports for the rest of your life; I don't care how good you are. You can be the best ever, but it's still going to go away.

Terry Crews

#94. The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less that that. My ability to concentrate and work toward hat goal has been my greatest asset.

Jack Nicklaus

#95. Robin Roberts - what a trailblazer she has been in sports TV! One of the best in TV.

Megan Alexander

#96. I think sports are very beneficial in the fight against obesity. I remember playing little league - I was the best person on the pitch by a long shot. It was only last weekend actually, I think I have some photos of it if you're interested.

Zach Braff

#97. In sport you always think the strongest guy should be going for it and getting the best results. The thing is, cycling also has a very important team aspect, which I don't think that a lot of people fully grasp.

Chris Froome

#98. A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.

Yoshiro Mori

#99. My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan

Eric Cantona

#100. In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

Althea Gibson