Sports People Quotes
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Sports People Quotes & Sayings
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It's not a case of us against them, it's a matter of melding all people's skills and resources to create a better world for everyone !
— Lyn St. James
Psychology is a big part of sport that some people do not realise. But it is a skill you have to practice.
— Jade Jones
Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.
— Chris Rock
Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?
— David Millar
People don't win because they're physically stronger. It's because they're stronger between the ears.
— Alex Shaffer
Sports is a bunch of people gathering around, watching something that they're not actually connected to - they're just emotionally connected.
— George Stroumboulopoulos
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
— Sam Snead
Striking up conversations with strangers is something like extreme sports for autistic people.
— Kamran Nazeer
Sports is a way of entertainment, to people who are in different backgrounds, and for people who dedicated their lives to achieve the best in sports.
— Emerson Fittipaldi
Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.
— Sebastian Coe
When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made
— Mark Webber
Sleepwalking is the perfect exorcise for lazy people
— Benny Bellamacina
A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around
— Bonnie Blair
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
— Elon Musk
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
— Barbara Walters
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
Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.
— Lewis Hamilton
Sports and management are not as diverse as people think.
— Harsha Bhogle
I feel the pressure but I embrace it. Whatever I have to do to make the sport catch on to other people, I'll do it.
— Freddy Adu
Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.
— Bill Watterson
Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.
— Kim Clijsters
People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.
— Martina Navratilova
To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.
— Dave Winfield
Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.
— John Kessel
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Culture. [...] That most people don't do what we tell them to do. They do what they can get away with.
— Fredrik Backman
I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.
— Sherry Turkle
The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.
— Taufik Hidayat
What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music?
— Richard Ashcroft
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
— Garry Kasparov
Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.
— Sebastian Coe
If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at.
— Cheryl Cole
It sure made me feel good to be here today, and have so many people say so many kind things.
— Steve Largent
Today, we are the only people who are more likely to own a professional sports team than to play for one.
— Celso Cukierkorn
Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.
— Richard Attias
Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.
— Yao Ming
I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.
— Sutton Foster
I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.
— Giles Duley
Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
— Sachin Tendulkar
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
— Charles Barkley
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
— William James
We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.
— Lou Holtz
I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.
— Ricky Williams
Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.
— J.J. Abrams
I want people to see the passion I have for swimming and become more involved in the sport.
— Ryan Lochte
Ease is something that I think many admire in other people, in sports or whatever it may be.
— Peter Riegert
There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.
— Curt Schilling
Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.
— Samuel P. Huntington
I think so highly of people who love their sport and make a really strong commitment to it.
— Tom Brady
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
— Arnold Palmer
In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.
— Henry Lawson
A sports bar is a way to take a bar and fill it with even more annoying people than usual.
— Demetri Martin
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
The Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success, and so were the Celtics. It became part of people's sports lore.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Sports have a way of touching people.
— Joan Ryan
People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.
— Andrea Bocelli
Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.
— Fran Tarkenton
You have people telling you how good you are and all of a sudden, you might start believing it and forget what it takes to be good.
— Lou Lamoriello
Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.
— Richie Sambora
People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.
— Michael Wilbon
Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.
— Elayne Boosler
In terms of history and sports, I don't think people will forget.
— Kristine Lilly
People have an opinion of Africa and it is not so good, but we have to let sport unite us all.
— Didier Drogba
I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.
— Shaquille O'Neal
We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.
— Roger Goodell
I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
The worst thing of having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.
— Fredrik Backman
Any sport you're going to do, you're going to lose more than you win. People don't realize how hard it is to be an athlete. It's difficult.
— Diandra Asbaty
People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do.
— Karni Liddell
The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
— P. J. O'Rourke
