Top 1200 Best Sports Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.

Deion Sanders played two sports, and Bo Jackson played two sports. I'm not athletic enough to do two sports, but I think I'm good enough to do two professions and do them pretty well at a high level.

All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.

I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.

When I think of those who were the greatest in their respective sports, it was their drive for perfection that made them the best.

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

I think all good sports movies aren't really about sports.

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

We want to find a way to be an environmental leader in motor sports, as well as in sports in general.

I didn't know how I was going to get to the Olympics, and in the beginning, I didn't really care. And that was the best part, because my desire exposed me to so many different sports, and in all of them, I always dedicated my best effort because I knew that's what it was going to take to become an Olympian.

In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.

I was a creative kid; I wasn't really into sports, and sports in the South are a pretty big deal. It's like a religion down there.

Talking about and analyzing sports isn't the same as playing sports.

Professional sports have built themselves on the celebration of Americana, the ideas and values that best exemplify America.

Sports are my passion. They have been since I was a kid. So I think I'll be involved in sports in some capacity no matter what I do.

I'm not an agate type ESPN Sports Center highlight, in-your-face kind of a sports fan.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

I'm sick of the media making female sports athletes into supermodels, when they're clearly sixes at best.

Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

I'm the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I'm still convinced that it's teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes.

Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.

Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

I think it wouldn't be wise to lose the best years of my sports career at university.

I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and everything to sports.

It's been a big flaw of ours in the soccer department that a lot of our best athletes go and play other sports. But I think young players have seen me, and others, go over to Europe and play in some of the best leagues - and MLS is improving so much, too.

The great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, putting forward the development of sports as a matter that has an important bearing on the prosperity of the country and nation, indicated the road ahead of the Juche-based sports and wrote a new chapter in the history of building a sports power by dint of outstanding ideas and leadership.

I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.

Peter Gammons went on to Sports Illustrated and ESPN, and was on everyone`s shortlist of best baseball writers ever.

Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

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.

There is lots of enthusiasm among youth of Haryana about sports. They have potential in sports.

If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.

Maybe God brought me here to inspire the youth to engage in sports and teach them the value of sports.

Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.

To compare writing an article for 'Sports Illustrated' to doing a piece for 'Real Sports', the article, it was all me. You know, I'm out there by myself with my pad and pencil. 'Real Sports,' I've got a producer, an assistant producer, and cameramen. It's an individual game versus a team game.

My best career moments have come being a fan first. Because that's why we love sports, and that's why I got into sports - those highs and lows on that roller coaster ride that I don't want to get off - because I enjoy the highs as much as I enjoy the lows. The highs are even better when you experience the lows, and that can apply when rooting for your favorite sports team or your career. It's also important not to get too high or too low, and it's also important not to listen to the noise. You just have to do it for you in those career moments because they're gonna come.

As a kid, playing sports, I was never the best athlete on my teams, but I was always the guy people looked at as the workhorse.

'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

I was good at sports - basketball, football, tennis and dropped them all. At 16, I didn't care about sports anymore.

Sports are never just sports, we all know that. You're always carrying the flag in some way, shape or form.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

The Heat run a first-class organization. They have one of the best organizations in all of sports.

Don't let this[football] be the best thing that ever happens in your life. Maybe it'll be the best sports event, but don't let it be the best thing. Make sure you're a better father than this today. Make sure you're a better husband than this today. Because this goes away... It's a game.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.

When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now its called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.

I am focusing on entertainment because entertainment is the best way to promote sports in India. And wrestling can benefit a lot through entertainment. That's why I am trying my best to juggle between wrestling and entertainment.

I am really passionate about sports in general - especially water sports.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.

I think we have enough trouble finding community in this country, and sport does provide that. It is a mediocrisy, the greatest mediocrisy. If you're the best, it shows in sports. Nobody can say, 'Well, he's only there because of his connections,' or whatever. In that sense, I suppose it upholds democracy and the best in us.

The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.

I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or something. They are in an interestingly complex position in which they have to mediate the world of body and the world of words.

My main goal when I talk to groups is to educate families on the physical and mental health benefits that playing sports provide young girls. It's not just about going out there and having fun. That's a part of playing sports, but a big chunk of it is all the other things that sports give you to help you become a much more whole, better person.

I have always been into all kinds of sports, and have blended acting with sports.