Sports Pain Quotes

#1. Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.

Yanni

#2. Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay.

Desmond Morris

#3. Lombardi has to have the highest threshold of pain in the world - none of our injuries hurts him at all.

Jerry Kramer

#4. To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.

Charles Lamb

#5. Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.

James E. Loehr

#6. There's two kinds of pain in sports: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret.

Jeff Blatnick

#7. If athletes could think of SM as sports, they'd understand the acceptance of pain, but they'd always want to know who was winning.

Joseph W. Bean

#8. There's no gain, without pain.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. 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

#10. No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

Lou Brock

#11. I would use sport as an escape from the pain of what was real. Instead of dealing with the pain, instead of being honest about the pain, instead of asking for help - if I had to do it differently, I would do it differently in that regard.

R.A. Dickey

#12. We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

Hugh Blair

#13. Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides ... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it.

Alan Grant

#14. I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Hunter S. Thompson

#15. An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being ... that is the true glory of sport.

Aimee Mullins

#16. Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

William Cowper

#17. It's amazing how two thin pieces of clothing can hold such deep memories. Laughter, pain, victory, defeat, friendship, fatigue, elation ... they're all there, but only to the person who's worn the uniform

Wendelin Van Draanen

#18. I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.

David Walliams

#19. The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.

Brian O'Driscoll

#20. Stretched and skewed
Tap of the 8-ball and the cue
Scratches fall through
They are the scars of you

Criss Jami

#21. I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in pain and couldn't even sit in a chair for 2 years. 2 years! You want a sport that takes care of you the way you take care of the sport.

Eric Dickerson

#22. It is in experiencing and accepting the pain of defeat, that we may truly acknowledge the joy of victory.

Andre Bramble

#23. Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run.

Cam Neely