Sports Quotes

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 destructive criticism. Without 100% dedication, you won't be able to do this.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.
Boris Becker

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.
Carl Lewis

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
Emil Zatopek

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That?s the mark of a true professional.
Joe Paterno

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that?s the way to bet.
Damon Runyon

Players win games, teams win championships.
Bill Taylor

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.
John Williams

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace
Michael Jordan

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

All you owe the public is a good performance.
Humphrey Bogart

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.
Clint Eastwood

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
Charles Barkley

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
Charles Barkley

What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!”
Joe Strummer

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take .

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
Marcel Duchamp

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
Lou Gehrig

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right..
Brad Pitt

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
Babe Ruth

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
Babe Ruth

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
Babe Ruth

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.
Umberto Eco

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.
Chris Rock

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
Bobby Knight

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
Ted Williams

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
Ted Williams

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.
Ted Williams

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Bob Hope

You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
Miles Davis

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
Jackie Robinson

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
Hank Aaron

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
Hank Aaron

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
Hank Aaron

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
Hank Aaron

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
Mickey Mantle

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.
Mickey Mantle

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
Branch Rickey