Top 1200 Short Motivational Sports Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.

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

Of course sports and politics intersect, and those conversations belong, more than anywhere else, on a network devoted to sports.

I always wanted to create a collection inspired by sports. I never played sports, maybe that's why it intrigues me.

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

I've been playing team sports since I could walk... so anything sports-related story is always fun for me.

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.

If the Russians masterminded fraud for 40 years at the highest state level in sports, operating behind the scenes to corrupt sports, what else are they capable of?

I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I wonder why there aren't more, better sports novels.

I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio.

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

This is what makes sports so amazing, that we can start a discussion around a table, in the newspaper, in the magazines, that will get people's attention. And that's what sports does.

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

For sports in general, it's good to have a person in the White House who's physically fit, who loves sports, but also understands and knows how to run a country.

If something touches on the world of sports, ESPN has never told me that I cannot discuss a sports-related matter.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

It is so important for young girls to be fit. I think sports is the key to success, because the challenges you face in sports prepare you for the rest of your life.

I have been a sports fan my whole life. To be able to talk about sports in an intelligent, journalistic fashion and to do things of a serious nature is a dream job.

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

My father very early on had both short and long-term strategies in his approach to raising his children, so my father was disturbed by the extent to which I was interested in both hip-hop and sports.

As a child, I liked to play different type of sport, and I grew up to be an ardent sports fan. I have been watching all sports tournament religiously, especially badminton.

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

First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports.

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

My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes.

Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

I am inspired by positive people who have overcome difficult obstacles, motivational/spiritual books, nature, and my kids.

All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

I started off playing sports when I was five years old. I played three or four sports all throughout the year.

I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever.

My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling.

I'm a big sports history buff. I love sports.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.

It's part of the juice of sports that you tend to find certain sports figures that you cheer on from other cities and others that you're a bit skeptical about.

From Enve Composites to Bluehouse Skis, Utah companies are making breakthrough products for biking, winter sports, water sports and more.

My brother Barry was into all sports, and so was my late father. For me, hockey was the one sport I loved and played. I didn't really pay much attention to the other sports.

Anybody who follows me on Twitter or Facebook knows that I'm super into fantasy sports. I like to make money on my sports knowledge basically.

I'm on the playstation, or else I go out and play football. I enjoy movies and sitcoms. I love reading motivational books too.

Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.

I have given motivational speeches at IIT and other well-known establishments. I want to appeal to the people, and therefore, I talk from the heart.

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.

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.

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.

Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.

As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.

Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.

Sports should just be taken as sports.

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair.

Listen: I love sports and my family loves sports.

I was perceived to be a first- to third-rounder. I kind of had a tough junior year and fell to the fifth round. At that time, it was motivational.

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

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

I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person.

Iran has been strong in individual sports like wrestling, judo and weightlifting, but we have never excelled at team sports.

ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.