Sports Figure Quotes

#1. I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.

Benicio Del Toro

#2. That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.

Joe Nichols

#3. There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.

Stephen Rodrick

#4. The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

Claude Bernard

#5. Think about it - pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics - what is it? It's a choreographed performance that is judged.

Chris Jericho

#6. When it doesn't seem to come on schedule, we must feel gratitude that it will come at the right time.

Leslie Householder

#7. Charlie and I discovered at a really young at that we had a passion for figure skating, and I think that passion drives us to work every day to improve and grow. We have really learned to love our sport more and more, year to year. And the hard work really pays off.

Meryl Davis

#8. The boundary between expert and amateur was an imposed social-cultural "protection" which actually exposed a number of women to a fatal disease, because decaying matter, as the fireman said of fire (cited in the book's final piece, "Torch Song") "ain't got no rules on it."

Laura Mullen

#9. At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.

Evgeni Plushenko

#10. The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

Matthew Henry

#11. What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.

Malcolm Gladwell

#12. Figure skating was a pretty individual sport. I've grown up a lot since those days and enjoy being part of a team now. Being a doctor is about working with nurses, therapists, anesthesiologists, and I've learned more about team play being a doctor than when I was in sports.

Debi Thomas

#13. My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

Uzo Aduba

#14. We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.

George MacDonald Fraser

#15. I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.

Johnny Weir

#16. After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.

Pete Sampras

#17. Progress is heading in a forward direction and realizing what was behind is now your legacy!

K.C. Rhoads

#18. I never ever wanted to change my sport ... Figure skating was my outlet, it was my breath, it was how I could live and transmit everything I was feeling and everything I had worked for and given up and all these sacrifices I'd made throughout the years. It was how I could make them all worth it.

Johnny Weir

#19. She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's never over until the fat lady sings.

Frank Carroll

#20. I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure it out.

Stephanie Gilmore

#21. Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

Katarina Witt

#22. To me, figure skating is a diving sport. It's a sport made by the gods. It inspires people to cry, it inspires people to cheer, it pulls the emotions out of people.

Frank Carroll

#23. During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

Mickey Mantle

#24. He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

Henry Ward Beecher

#25. His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness and speed.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#26. I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

Patrick Chan

#27. In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

Dick Schaap

#28. All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.

Roland Barthes

#29. I've been an athlete all my life. I was a competitive figure skater, and then when I realized skating was not an adult sport I took up tennis and played that quite seriously from the time I was about 18.

Condoleezza Rice

#30. Doesn't it bother your conscience to know that thousands of trees give up their lives just to keep you in reading matter that you dont read?

Sandra Brown

#31. ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPERIENCES IN LIFE IS ACHIEVING PERSONAL GOALS THAT OTHERS SAID WOULD BE, 'IMPOSSIBLE TO ATTAIN.' BE PROUD OF YOUR SUCCESS AND SHARE YOUR STORY WITH OTHERS.

Robert Cheeke

#32. I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.

Alicia Sacramone

#33. Yeah, because off the ice the only language Stephanie speaks is fluent Bitch.

Jennifer Comeaux

#34. I want to get fitter. And yes, I'm learning hot yoga to get a bikini body. I don't believe one has to sport a size-zero figure to flaunt it. One just needs a fit, sexy and toned body.

Sonam Kapoor

#35. He missed his imagined future.

John Green

#36. Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right

Bear Bryant

#37. I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

Rachel McAdams

#38. No one has ever become poor from giving.

Maya Angelou

#39. I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.

Herschel Walker

#40. When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

Francis Bacon