Top 1000 Sports Quotes & Sayings

I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.

A successful team, in sports or business, extends from the top of management down to the guys at the bottom of the roster or organizational chart.

I'm a huge sports fan.

I want my kids to be able to live comfortable and go to school and to be into sports.

What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.

I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.

I grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, so in Iowa, we didn't have a pro sports team, so it was all about the Hawks, and everybody was a Hawkeyes fan, and everybody had their black and gold and had something Hawkeye related.

Sports is something that transcends generations, transcends backgrounds, cultures, races. And so the power of sports is real.

It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.

I've always loved being active, and I used to do sports - basketball, soccer, volleyball - growing up.

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.

The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.

I am a fan of winter sports.

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

I've always been around dudes and sports.

If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

Being named Michael Jordan - I think growing up playing sports and having a name like Michael Jordan - and I was extremely competitive - I used to get teased a lot. But it made me want to strive for greatness and be able to compete at whatever I decided to do.

The best thing that you can do to break down any of the barriers that women face in sports is to be over prepared - know your value, but also know the subject matter that you're covering.

I've been a sports fan forever.

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

My work ethic is from sports.

Predominantly I'm an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there's always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits.

I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.

I see similarities in the sports I played growing up in the sense of how I tackle a role when I get a job. A lot of effort goes in on an individual basis. There is a lot of time spent by yourself working on your craft and what you have to do. But, at the end of the day, you're there to serve the movie just like you would the rugby team.

I just love sports: basketball, baseball, football. As a kid I did it all. But in my heart, I'm a football player. There's nothing like it. It's what I live for. Ever since I could walk, I've been drawn to it.

Owning a popular sports team is very different than any other type of business. They don't throw parades when Apple has the biggest quarter in corporate history. People don't call and email asking for anyone from the team to come visit their sick child. They don't cry as they request a jersey of their child's favorite player to be buried with them.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men.

Drake is known to be cursed. He's probably the last remaining curse in sports. Whatever products he wears ultimately that team is jinxed.

While football embarrassingly exposes the excesses of capitalism, the Olympic sports have been used to propagate the neoliberal mantra that success is simply a matter of hard work.

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.

I don't want my kids to be on the streets period. I want my kids to be nerds. I want them to be book smart or playing sports - I don't want them to know nothing about the streets.

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

I love sports. I love being active. I love challenging myself. I was a jock growing up from the time I could walk.

At school I hated swimming and felt bigger and more self-conscious than all the other girls - and I would go to summer sports camps to desperately try to change my shape so that it couldn't be one of the taunts aimed at me by bullies.

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.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

I believe when the world faces a crisis, businesses and sports have an obligation to step up and make a difference.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports; few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That's not downplaying anyone's achievements but rather recognizing that there comes a time when simply being there is no longer good enough for the record books.

I haven't watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don't watch that many films anymore - partly because I don't have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.

I was the nerd. Because I was reading. I wasn't into sports. I was really into art. Very geekish about comics. Assumed gay.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with the blurb, 'Can Lou Do It?' I'd just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week's coverage.

The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.

We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

We're so trained to be 'mentally tough,' in sports.

When I'm playing football, it's what I know; it's what I'm good at. The spotlight is not just on you: you're with 10 of your team-mates. I could have done other sports, like tennis and athletics, but I like being part of a team where it's not just about you; it's about everybody.

Writing/reading is like visiting another person's brain. And a short book or article is like a short stay. You come in, have a coffee, talk about the weather or sports, and then move on.

Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.