Why Play Sports Quotes

#1. No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen. - Author: Curtis Joseph

#2. Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun. - Author: Tiger Woods

#3. I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion. - Author: Carla Gugino

#4. Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball. - Author: Magic Johnson

#5. In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover in casual schoolyard play that a girl could outrun most of us or hold her own in basketball or hit a softball - but there were no teams, no coaches, for girls. - Author: George Vecsey

#6. There are guys who play lacrosse, and there are lacrosse players. - Author: Brendan Mundorf

#7. We play a violent sport. - Author: Shaun Alexander

#8. When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I'd be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my nails, and I'd, like, miss the ball going past me. - Author: Kendall Jenner

#9. I was born with this heart condition, but it's never affected me - I've been able to play every sport I wanted to, and the doctors were amazed. - Author: Dan Feuerriegel

#10. It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball. - Author: Jack Buck

#11. Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own. - Author: Joe Paterno

#12. I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When you play basketball seriously, a lot of times, through the summer season, you continue playing. So that replaced me playing baseball. - Author: Chadwick Boseman

#13. I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career. - Author: Novak Djokovic

#14. As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget. - Author: Junior Seau

#15. Play with no fear of failure. - Author: Max Seibald

#16. I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do. - Author: David Boreanaz

#17. On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now. - Author: Bjorn Borg

#18. Sport for me is about inspiring kids. Here's the rules, here's the play area, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is all about teaching kids how to approach life. If we're not playing sport to benefit kids, I'm not really sure why we play sport. - Author: Russell Crowe

#19. Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that? - Author: David Beckham

#20. That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team. - Author: Warren Moon

#21. Sport used to play a phenomenal part in my life, because I used to play a lot of county sport, a lot of sport for my school. I love team sports. Talk about being with the boys. I love the camaraderie. That's why I like acting. - Author: Matthew William Goode

#22. There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports. - Author: Rebecca Lobo

#23. The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them. - Author: Hank Aaron

#24. The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard."
"Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again"
-Joe DiMaggio - Author: Joe DiMaggio

#25. You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it. - Author: Roger Federer

#26. I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do. - Author: Eric Williams

#27. What they call "play" (gym, travel, sports) looks like work. - Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#28. Humility is always one play away. - Author: Tim Foley

#29. 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. - Author: Jack Kemp

#30. When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#31. I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports - surfing, basketball, it doesn't matter what it is, if you play with people who are better than you, then you get better too. It is the same thing with acting. - Author: Paul Walker

#32. I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people. - Author: Oleg Cassini

#33. We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It's part of the game, it's what I love about it ... and I'd hate to see it go. - Author: Ben Hannant

#34. You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if you look in the mirror and can say you give it everything to win, that's it. You're not going to win every time. - Author: Duke Snider

#35. The guys who play it [soccer] are kinda dumb. Why don't they just kick the crap out of the guy in front of the net? Then they could score all they want. - Author: Tite Kubo

#36. It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle. - Author: Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#37. I think when young kids can see Jason Collins, myself and Michael Sam, and Abby Wambach and Megan Rapinoe and different athletes come out, it will definitely change and encourage younger gay men and women to play the sport. - Author: Robbie Rogers

#38. Never back down, never fear anyone, for the best opponents will help you to play your best. - Author: John Kessel

#39. Because I used to play a lot of sport, I've always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I'd lie and say, 'Yeah, I'm going to the gym.' I literally never did anything. - Author: Jamie Dornan

#40. I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win. - Author: Snoop Dogg

#41. Golf in India is considered an elite sport. It is not possible for everyone to play in private courses. We need to give opportunities to all who want to play the sport. And for that, we need public golf courses. - Author: Jeev Milkha Singh

#42. I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery. - Author: Im Dong-Hyun

#43. Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name. - Author: Cleveland Amory

#44. You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it. - Author: Lou Gehrig

#45. It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play. - Author: Troy Vincent

#46. I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport. - Author: Sue Wicks

#47. Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed. - Author: Phil Esposito

#48. I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing. - Author: Sean Astin

#49. I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play. - Author: Simon Gray

#50. Your power play can win you games, and your penalty killers can save you games. - Author: Emile Francis

#51. You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#52. 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. - Author: Stan Albeck