Sport Quotes
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Athletics is athletics. When you do sport, you are gambling. You run, you win, you lose. It doesn't matter if you are competing or you are not competing.
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We are civilized animals, right? Then why do we continue to slaughter for sport? What if you were a Chicken, how would you feel? I grew up in a Chicken Coop and I was not a Chicken at first, until I was faced with your World!
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I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground.
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I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment.
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At first I didnt give a damn to go down in history. I wanted to win. But the more I won, the more I thought about leaving something behind. Yes, it's as important as hell to me. I want to leave something that people will remember me by. Of course, a lot of boxers want to do that. But it's not easy. Take Larry Holmes, he was the big man after Muhammad Ali, he wanted to emulate him, but for some reason the public didnt take him like they did to Ali. I think people wont fully understand what I contributed to the sport for years.
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There are a lot of leg strains on the inside of the legs. There's a lot of pressure on your legs and knees. Shoulders are another big thing. We play a physical sport and those are the areas that go.
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Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
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Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.
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The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.
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Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.
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I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.
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Femininity and sport can go together.
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Performance in an endurance sport, as with many things, is only as good as the weakest link.
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If we don’t change things and address the issues, this sport doesn’t survive
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Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
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Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.
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You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.
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I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.
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Football is a violent sport, but you know what you sign up for when you put those shoulder pads on. I agree with certain aspects of it. I disagree with certain aspects of it. I've had concussions and I'm still here. I still love the sport. I think I'm still very healthy.
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If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.
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Just make the point we come from the water. It's the most natural medium in the world. It's the only sport you can do from your first bath to your last without hurting yourself.
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Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.
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Through Biblical times, there have been great women warriors and now the sport is so populated that these are the women warriors that we have today in boxing, kickboxing, and MMA.
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I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey.