Sport Quotes

• Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.

  

  Edward Smith
  • Free
  • Human Heart
  • Amateur

• I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground.

  

  Alan Kotok
  • Sport
  • Friction
  • Coefficient

• You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Sport
  • Forties
  • American pastime

• We were the first to combine pop culture and sports. Second, we have a relentless focus on driving innovation into our product. And third is integrating sustainability into our business model like no one has ever done before, through Parley for the Oceans, to prevent plastic pollution. We’ve done all three of these things earlier than our competitors.

  

  Kasper Rorsted
  • Culture
  • Innovation
  • Sport

• I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Sport
  • Too Much
  • Guns

• Mathematics is not a spectator sport!

  

  George Polya
  • Mathematics
  • Sport
  • Spectator

• 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.

  

  Gerad Adams
  • Pressure
  • Physical
  • Areas

• I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

  

  Ed Zern
  • Nature
  • Sport
  • Regard

• Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Enjoy
  • Summer
  • Pleasure

• As Christians, we're asked to give. In my sport, if someone needs equipment or help with something, regardless of who they are as a competitor, I'm called to help them for a higher purpose. So it definitely affects everything I do. It's not easy. It's very hard to love everyone.

  

  Elana Meyers
  • Love
  • Purpose
  • Christian

• I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Shoot
  • Video Games
  • Dated

• 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.

  

  Steve Yzerman
  • Player
  • Sport
  • Franchises

• Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.

  

  Ed Ayres
  • Language
  • Destruction
  • Mimic

• 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.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Team
  • Environment
  • Psychologist

• Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're in Spain or Mexico it's absolutely not a sport; it's not thought of as a sport and it's not written about as a sport. It has elements of public spectacle, but then so does, for example, the Super Bowl. It has elements of a deeply entrenched, deeply conservative tradition, a tradition that resists change, as you pointed out.

  

  Bette Ford
  • Change
  • Tradition
  • Example

• You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Time
  • Sport
  • Worthwhile

• Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.

  

  Harsha Bhogle
  • Sport
  • Opponent

• My body is for my tennis - it's for my sport. I'm not a model at all. I don't work out to go to the beach: I work out to play well and to do well on the court.

  

  Stan Wawrinka
  • Work
  • Body
  • Sport

• If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.

  

  Bert Sugar
  • Kings
  • Sport
  • Horse Racing

• Every sport has dangers, and it's a risk we all take, but that's why people need to give us the credit we deserve.

  

  Dillian Whyte
  • Risk
  • Sport
  • Dangers

• An overall title is one of the biggest things you can win in our sport.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Things
  • Sport
  • Title

• If we don’t change things and address the issues, this sport doesn’t survive

  

  Claire Williams
  • Change
  • Issues
  • Survive

• The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to move to the same beat. The athlete wanted to check what has been described as the ultimate workout. The romantic craved seeing if the quirkiness of the sport - there is after all, little practical value to oarsmanship in the postindustrial age - stirred his blood.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Athlete
  • Blood
  • Greek

• Having the chance to play sports growing up teaches you all kinds of life lessons. It gives young people confidence and instills in them motivation and drive to be the best one can be. It's absolutely invaluable.

  

  April Ross
  • Lessons
  • Kinds
  • Invaluable

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