Sports Quotes
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When I started really playing music, I pretty much quit sports. I quit everything.
Mark Foster Foster the People
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I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.
Chris Evert
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I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.
Common
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There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.
Joaquin Phoenix
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Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
William Hazlitt
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I was always into sports and a lot of physical activities. My dad was a kickboxer and a body builder. My mom was an aerobics teacher.
Billy Magnussen
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I think most people don't even know what 'woo pig sooie' is if they're not a sports fan or they're not from Arkansas.
Matt Besser
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I always find sports-related ways to stay in shape.
Cassie Scerbo
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Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
Phil Knight
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I had played sports all my life, and I thought that was going to be the way. But I saw where the potential in football was going to end. When it comes to decision-making, I just follow my gut at the end of the day. And if I don't, I get in trouble. I wanted to become a filmmaker.
Jason Wiles
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Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other.
Mia Hamm
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I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun.
Kellan Lutz
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You see so many different personalities and mind-sets in the world of sports, just like you do with actors.
Marc Blucas
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I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928.... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.
Max Schmeling
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Gowdy had a love affair with the microphone and the fans had a love affair with him. American sports fans truly lost an icon, a legend who never felt he was bigger than anyone else. He had that humility that made him special, and he made everyone feel like they were so important.
Dick Vitale
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The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.
Chad le Clos
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That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf is cyclical and there's not much between the teams.
Darren Clarke
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Most people have a concentration in particular areas; it might be politics, it might be science, it might be business, it might be sports. I care about all of those, and that's why I've chosen the formats I chose.
Charlie Rose
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I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.
Sergei Bubka
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I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.
Ashton Kutcher
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It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those.
James Salter
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I believe in women. I believe in myself. I believe in my body.
Evelyn Ashford
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I believe it is right when not only me, but also my colleagues - the prime minister, ministers, deputies of the State Duma - when they, like today, for example, participate in two marathons, when they visit football matches, when they themselves take part in sport competitions. That is how, inter alia, millions of people start feeling interest in and love for fitness and sports. I believe it is extremely important.
Vladimir Putin
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I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
Roger Federer