Play Sports Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Play Sports

Play Sports Quotes & Sayings

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Technique is everything and we play a contact sport. — Troy Vincent

Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never in the foreground. — Felix Baumgartner

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. — Joe E. Lewis

Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat. — Bear Bryant

Play to win but never fear to lose. Win or lose-either way you are a winner. — Debasish Mridha

Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might. — Casey Stengel

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you? — Ben Hogan

First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports. — Dominique Wilkins

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything. — Demetri Martin

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential. — Bobby Knight

Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it. — Gore Vidal

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. — Mike Singletary

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.' — Peyton Manning

Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball. — Roger Clemens

Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport. — Mark Zupan

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are guys who play lacrosse, and there are lacrosse players. — Brendan Mundorf

Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to. — Rita Rudner

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn. — Benny Hill

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

Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles. — Terry Hayes

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey. — Patrick Chan

I feel this pang of regret whenever I watch sport; this sense that I will never play a big match again. — David Beckham

Play your heart out each game, so you can look your teammates in the eyes and ask, without saying it, 'I played full out, did you?' — John Kessel

When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust. — Donald Bradman

Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play. — Thomas Szasz

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash. — Jason Statham

In sports ... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever. — Joe Montana

I can only play the sport for so long, I have mathematics for the rest of my life. — John Urschel

I encourage girls to play sports and play hard. — Lisa Leslie

Little did I know that the sport I loved and the skills I learned would later play a role in my relationship with God. — Clint Dempsey

I love sports - I used to play volleyball really competitively ... I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers, and I've ridden horses my whole life. — Gigi Hadid

When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well. — John Cleese

Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.' — Paul Pierce

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on. — Lou Holtz

If you just play really hard, he says, nothing else matters. — Kekla Magoon

Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play. — Chris Gabrieli

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. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with. — Vernon D. Burns

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

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

The only reward in this game is winning. It's no fun to practice; it's no fun to play and lose. — Gerry DiNardo

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. — Rogers Hornsby

You can't just go outside and play hockey. It's more of an expensive sport. — Jeremy Roenick

He's probably the only player who doesn't play for 10 months and, if he scores a hat trick in his first game back, no one would be surprised. — Ryan Whitney

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play. — Nikki Giovanni

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. — Snoop Dogg

I spend a little time every day to play sports. — Vladimir Putin

I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill. — Lee Trevino

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

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure. — John F. Kerry

I like to play music and sleep. But most of all, I love to work ... I don't really play sports, so I like to spend my time playing guitar or piano. — Drake Bell

You play to win the game. — Herman Edwards

I love outdoor sports, like volleyball, and I play them whenever I can. — Gisele Bundchen

Today, we are the only people who are more likely to own a professional sports team than to play for one. — Celso Cukierkorn

Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice. — Ricky Williams

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room. — John Amaechi

I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down. — Joe DiMaggio

The Game gives you a Purpose. The Real Game is, to Find a Purpose. — Vineet Raj Kapoor

I don't play sports. The only sports I play is shopping. But there is a lot of walking involved in that ... running sometimes if there's a sale. — Jessica Simpson

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it. — Victoria Principal

I'm a very feminine man. I like feminine things. I don't go to strip clubs. I don't drink beer. I don't play sports. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn't much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did. — Bill Hader

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

I think that every single person should play sports. — Donovan Bailey

I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love. — Taylor Cole

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football. — Robert Frost

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. — Michael Jordan

I love both the sun and the moon, day and night. But I enjoy the day the most because I live in Rio and I can play sports. — Rodrigo Santoro

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both. — Bear Bryant

I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I ski. I always like to do an activity. — Caroline Winberg

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport. — Pierre De Coubertin

Soccer and ping-pong are my two favorite sports to play. — Judah Friedlander

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down. — Elle Fanning

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser. — John Donne

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups. — Rooney Mara

Never back down, never fear anyone, for the best opponents will help you to play your best. — John Kessel

Humility is always one play away. — Tim Foley

I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to. — Spike Lee

They say that golf isn't a contact sport. Not the way that we play it — Alice Cooper

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. — Robert Frost

Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone. — Rafael Nadal

On the road we're somebody else's guests and we play in a way that they're
not going to forget we visited them. — Knute Rockne

Before kids can play like a pro, they must enjoy playing the game like a kid. — Steve Locker

I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping. — Jesse Owens

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

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports. — Mark Zandi

I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well. — Angela Ruggiero

I definitely like to stay active. I'm a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live. — Brendan Dooling

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible. — John Bentley

Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time. — Don Meyer

If you can pick up a ground ball you'll play for any team you want. — Marcus Holman

It was just something normal in my family to play sports. It wasn't necessarily forced on us. It was just something we enjoyed. — Marc Bulger

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

We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving. — Vince Lombardi

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. — Bobby Knight

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. — Dan Feuerriegel

Be fair. Play hard. — Dan Venezia

The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control. — John Kessel