Great Sports Quotes: top 97 famous quotes about Great Sports

Great Sports Quotes & Sayings

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There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television. — Bill Paxton

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. — Phil Jackson

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results. — Jerry Flint

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

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field ... I was always tending to be in trouble. — Peter Hollingworth

George [Steinbrenner] is a great guy, unless you have to work for him. — Lou Piniella

I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city. — Magic Johnson

One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams. — George Osborne

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent. — Leigh Steinberg

Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other. — Mia Hamm

My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer. — Penn Jillette

Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ... — Elizabeth Bowen

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport. — Fred Perry

Sports bars are also a great place for guys to meet other guys
either for sex or for wrestling, whichever feels more right. — Eugene Mirman

I'm a huge fan of wrestling, and I would like to see the position of women in the sport continue to improve, so if I can be a part of it, great. — Ronda Rousey

First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general. — Berti Vogts

Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable. — Peter Drucker

I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it. — Roger Federer

Perseverance is a great element of success. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Basketball Rule #6
A great team
has a good scorer
with a teammate
who's on point
and ready
to assist. — Kwame Alexander

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. — Ernest Hemingway,

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. — Ty Cobb

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

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent. — Agnes Smedley

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity. — Nick Faldo

Great sport has intellectual beauty. — Rick Carlisle

We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great. — Wilt Chamberlain

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be. — Michael Wilbon

I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel. — Michael Bay

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great. — Tom Brady

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great. — Billie Jean King

I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading. — Boris Becker

Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile. — Stan Smith

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

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. — Walt Whitman

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers. — Pat Riley

If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment. — Kevin Costner

Know that you are great ... so dominate. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant. — Richard Attias

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. — Jane Austen

The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport. — Johnny Miller

Sports were supposed to be a reflection of life, a life lesson, a test of endurance and strength, a great preparation for the real world. — Harlan Coben

The aspect of sport that you learn is that you have your good times and your bad times, but you share it with great people. — George Gregan

So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be. — Rick Snyder

The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance. — Martin Jacques

It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport. — Debi Thomas

Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you. — Dan Hampton

I can't say Boston is 'home-home.' It's definitely a place I'm growing accustomed to. It's such a great sports town. — Wes Welker

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. — Lynn Davies

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy. — Bertolt Brecht

Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh

We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game. — John McEnroe

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. — George Bernard Shaw

Getting more exercise isn't only good for your waistline. It's a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood. — Auliq Ice

It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared. — Lou Holtz

Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active. — Lee Haney

The Great Commission to go into all the world is not only geographical, but must include every field, profession, discipline, sport, etc. — Rick Joyner

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it. — Dan Quayle

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. — Pat Riley

I see great things in baseball. — Walt Whitman

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around. — Larry Robinson

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences. — Kobe Bryant

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person. — Curt Flood

I tried to play every sport. I wasn't great at most of them, but at least I tried! — Britt Robertson

My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers. — John Roderick

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes. — Jim Sensenbrenner

Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy! — Ralph Jordan

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. — Nelson Mandela

Boxing has been great for me because it's, like, my new sport, so it's something that I can get better at. — Gigi Hadid

Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio. — Chick Hearn

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. — Joe Paterno

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

Some sports teams hate each other in the locker room and that's what makes them great. — Ira Kaplan

Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it. — Earl Blaik

The world is filled with great sporting events. — Alex Berenson

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. — Bill Bradley

If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life. — Apolo Ohno

Great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine. — Paul Cookson

The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out. — Grant Hill

Winning is a great deodorant. — John Madden

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father. — Deion Sanders

If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there. — Joey Galloway

We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure. — Joe Paterno

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out. — Tim McCarver

If you make it into an Olympic team, you're good; if you make it into an Olympic final, you're great; and if you win an Olympic medal you're a freak. — Raelene Boyle

Sportswriters are what make sports great and fun to watch. — Derek Jeter

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions. — David Halberstam

We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals. — Ronald Reagan

They were miserable at sports, but great at fantasy sports. They avoided fights, but sought arguments. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Losing is the great American sin. — Jerome Holtzman

A player who makes a team great is better than a great player. — John Wooden

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not. — George J. Mitchell

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport. — Frank Bruno

Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor. — Carmelo Anthony

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. — Herbert Hoover

The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved. — Eric Braeden