Sport Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Sport

Sport Quotes & Sayings

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The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me. — Johan Cruyff

Education is a priority over any sport because without a mind you can't contribute to society. — Tiger Woods

I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away. — Dominique Moceanu

Life is a sport ... drink it up. — Michael Jordan

I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link. — Jon Bon Jovi

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords. — Theodore Roosevelt

Only a few of the women sport pubic hair. He's never understood what that's about. Some of the men are bare, too. O tempora, o mores. — Kelly Link

Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity. — Mia Hamm

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan. — Alastair Campbell

I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport. — Stanislas Wawrinka

Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport. — Tommy Hilfiger

Lucia opened the door. "They say not to discuss politics and religion on the first date."
"Well, then." I gave her a huge smile. "We're screwed. — Jennifer Lane

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

I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport. — Jeff Lindsay

Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream. — Bill Courtney

Would you like to be young again? Play any kind of sport you used to? All day long, with no soreness the next day?"
"Who Wouldn't? — Lissa Price

Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns. — Bernard Ingham

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

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. — Tony Hawk

Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work. — Earl Monroe

I love you, Sport. I want to put my ring on you. I want to put my ink on you. I want to make a baby with you. — Susan Fanetti

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport. — Al Kooper

Guys like Josh Gordon need to stay in his sport and mind his own business. — Kyrie Irving

It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts. — Akeem Ayers

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball. — Ken Harrelson

Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints. — Patrick Chan

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it. — Bill Watterson

In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together. — Edwin Moses

They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with. — Mary Wollstonecraft

I think fans of the sport have a good understanding now of how fit Formula One drivers need to be. — Jenson Button

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. — Garry Kasparov

This sport has given me so much that my hope would be to give back as much as I can for as long as I can. — Andre Agassi

There is no greater anesthetic than sport. — John Oliver

When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be overlooked. I don't train for my looks. — Jennie Finch

The best way to win is to play football — Josep Guardiola

Well, boys," Long Bill said. "I guess here's where I quit rangering. It's rare sport, but it ain't quite safe. — Larry McMurtry

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. — Jean-Claude Killy

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. — Andrea Bocelli

In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself. — Pete Carril

Dancing every night enhances a positive energy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished. — Cam Newton

I have accomplished everything I set out to accomplish when I started playing the sport at 7. And probably even more. — Sheryl Swoopes

Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person. — Emmitt Smith

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Conception is not some genteel, quiet pastime; it's a fierce and unforgiving team sport. — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

The only thing the sport gives us are moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments? — Fredrik Backman

If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport. — Olga Korbut

Hey, I see people manacled to log walls all the time. You bet. It's a popular sport in Bear Flat. Gonna replace fishing soon. — Cherise Sinclair

The sport in 2000 wasn't as big as it is now [in 2008]. — Robbie Lawler

Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious. — J. R. Martinez

But can love born of revenge avoid turning into cruel sport? — Shintaro Ishihara

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics. — Benjamin Disraeli

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure. — Dick Schaap

I can pick up any sport pretty quickly - believe me, I know how to throw a football. — Marisa Miller

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

Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much. — Dana Hussein

Health is the greatest strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill. — Erma Bombeck

As for the sport, even there Kasparov couldn't resist a sideswipe. Most of the gold in Sochi will go to Switzerland, but into secret bank accounts. — Anonymous

I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages. — Anderson Silva

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport. — Philip K. Wrigley

There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter. — Rene Maheu

I grew up playing every sport. — Paula Creamer

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out. — Pat Cash

If you were at school they would not let you read a book like this, they would keep you from reading it by involving you in sport. — Helen DeWitt

The life of this world is but a sport and a pastime. — Anonymous

I hope others take as much pride in the sport as I do. — Johnny Damon

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

Everyone has to remember, I've always said that soccer is my number-one sport. — Chad Ochocinco

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

There are three choices in life and sport - either you do it, you don't do it or you think about it. Most humans think about it. We will do it. — John Kessel

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music. — Avery Brundage

Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films. — Steve Sabol

I work 12 to 14 hours a day, and in the spare time I do sport. — Mikhail Prokhorov

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

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. — Alexander Pope

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

Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake! (Ms. Pole) — Elizabeth Gaskell

I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance. — Wladimir Klitschko

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

i made myself be still - impenetrable, boring - which deprived them of their sport. — Harriet Showman

Arguing is a waste of time, because our attitudes need a quantum leap, not our knowledge. Arguing is a sport at best and a bad attitude at worst. — Stefan Emunds

Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it. — Mike Tyson

Y'know, watching government regulators trying to keep up with the world is my favorite sport. — Neal Stephenson

Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art. — Tom Bissell

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. — Robert Graves

Then Raghu's son, as if in sport, Before the thousands of the court, The weapon by the middle raised That all the crowd in wonder gazed. — Valmiki

Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed. — Eric Cantona

Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man. — Pope Pius XII

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening. — Michael Phelps

It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business. — Michel Patini

And I've just spent the last 48 hours falling in love with a man that is not only completely out of my league, I don't even play the same sport — Kristen Proby

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

Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball. — Pete Hamill

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport. — David Millar

A lot of people have it in for me. It's practically a school sport. — Nenia Campbell

I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazing global sport. — Sania Mirza