Top 1200 Playing Sports Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

My mentality from the day I started playing sports was that you get up, you dust yourself off and you do it again.

I grew up playing sports, and being athletic was just something I have always hung on to.

I grew up playing sports, so I think of what it would be like to be in the NBA if you were a great player when Michael Jordan was playing. You could've been a phenomenal player, but you're in the Jordan era. That's the unfortunate thing about the competitive nature of entertainment. But we know what we signed up for.

One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the perfect venue in which to build character. But sports don't build character unless a coach possesses character and intentionally teaches it. Sports can team with ethics and character and spirituality; virtuous coaching can integrate the body with the heart, the mind, and the soul.

I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.

When all the other kids were playing sports after school, I wanted to sing and dance and act.

We decided that sports, lifestyle and fashion were three elements that could be mixed together to a very unique formula. That's what we did: make Puma a very sports-fashion brand when, at the times, everybody talked about sports and sports performance and functionality. We said, 'Well, it's about more.'

I'm a very competitive person - I grew up playing sports - so the challenge of always bettering myself is something that I like.

I grew up in the Boys & Girls Club. That's where I really started playing all sports, and that's why I'm a big advocate for the work they do.

The only exercise I get is playing sports because I hate the gym. I try to learn to love it.

I grew up riding quads, shooting guns and playing sports.

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.

One of the most awesome things about sports, particularly team sports, is that everything you need to do to be successful on the playing field carries over directly into life. In a team sport you have to learn how to work together, to set goals, and then work toward those goals in a productive way. You learn to be responsible and you learn how to not only depend on others, but also be independent so you can support others.

I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.

Unlike most sports playing fields, a boxing ring is a temporary structure.

I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

My dad wanted to have a son, and then he ended up with my sister and I, so from the time we could walk, we were constantly playing sports.

I said that once I stopped playing, when that time comes, I wanted to still be around sports.

The one thing I've never been into are the sports games. I don't know, I just don't like playing those as much.

We hope that the Commonwealth Sports movement is playing a meaningful role in the wider global conversation around tolerance, empowerment, and legal recognition for all.

It's important for girls to feel strong and powerful even when they're playing sports.

I love sports, and I love playing sports.

Playing all these different sports, you learn so much from the people you get coached by.

Sports is the common denominator in the world that brings everyone together. If there's any one place in the world where there is equality, it is probably sports. That was something that didn't always exist. We've come a long way in sports. Why can't society use sports as a way to bring people together and create change?

By showing myself being out with my dog or playing sports, it motivates people to get active.

I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

VR could, in theory, connect sports fans in different geographical locations so they could watch a game together. Instead of a group text or Twitter stream of commentary playing out across time zones when a team is playing, our avatars could inhabit virtual stands, side by side with the rest of our digital tribe.

Playing sports is a craft that has to be worked on and perfected just like anything else.

I get bored with working out, so I'm more into playing sports like soccer and basketball.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

In order to develop the country's sports in line with the great leaders' ideas and plan of developing Juche-based sports, our Party directs great efforts to the work of the sports sector.

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

I think my experience playing multiple sports kind of helps deal with a little bit of a bind.

I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics... Playing basketball you have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well.

When my elder sister decided to pursue sports, she faced a lot of music at home. We didn't have a TV in our village, so no one understood the value of sports. But my sister convinced my parents that participating in sports would mean a secure job in the government.

President Trump wouldn't stick to politics, so he got to jump into sports. So I feel very comfortable now, moving forward, jumping back and forth. Sports to politics, politics to sports.

I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end, you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.

I think it's... I don't want to become a social crusader on this issue, but I think sports, male sports, has traditionally not been an inviting environment for gay men to identify themselves. But eventually... we will get to a place where it is not an issue in sports.

I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life.

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros.

I grew up playing sports. But I always celebrate Veterans Day.

While, to me, daily fantasy is in no way sports betting, it's certainly a cousin of sports betting in that it attracts many of the same type of people who would otherwise choose to bet on sports.

I was really into sports, playing track and field, amateur wrestling, volleyball, and soccer. I was a very active kid and teenager.

I'm not knocking the other sports; I love other sports. There's a competitive and a technical level of them that I won't understand, probably, to a certain extent, but I've done a lot of other sports competing on college teams, and there's just nothing like fighting.

I'm a sports idiot - watching it, playing it, making conversation about it - I got nothing.

I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.

If I learned one thing by playing professional hockey for thirty-two years, it's that you have to love what you do. And that's not just true for sports.

I don't like sports. I'm not interested in sports. I hate sports.

I would love to see more African-American females engaged in all aspects of sports. All of the research tells us that participation in sports has a very positive impact in both the short and long term. Girls who participate in sports have a higher self-esteem and are more likely to graduate from college, and 80 percent of female executives played team sports growing up.

Growing up, I played every sport I could play, so I didn't have much time, but when I wasn't playing sports, I was definitely playing video games. But my mom used to tell me that I could only play video games for two hours a day and then they would turn off the Internet so I couldn't play online.

I grew up playing sports and being very active.

Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.

Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.

I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.

Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the life of a footballer, and I guess that is true across most sports now.