Sport Quotes

The Greatest” is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.

A sportsman is a man who every now and then simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.

Stephen Leacock

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Thomas Jefferson

Hockey captures the essence of the Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold hockey is the dance of life and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

The game isn't over until it's over.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

Horace

Citius altius fortius. (Swifter higher stronger.)

Motto of the Olympic Games

Well God is certainly getting an earful tonight.

Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.

Knute Rockne liked 'bad losers.' He said 'good losers' lose too often.

Ninety per cent of this game is half-mental.

I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.

When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

Michel Montaigne

If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.

William Shakespeare

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw

Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to race tracks at the age of two and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.

Charles M. Schulz

It you watch a game it's fun. If you play it it's recreation. If you work at it it's golf.

Bob Hope

Winning can be defined as the science of being totally prepared.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

When you win nothing hurts.

Let's win this one for the Gipper.

Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

International sport is war without shooting.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Every time you win you're reborn when you lose you die a little.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race religion or wealth: and where the only concern is 'Have you come to play?'

Henry Roxborough

Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure but knowing what to do with it is a business.

Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it's been.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

You can't think and hit at the same time.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners only survivors.

Give up your attachment to comfortable ways of living - show yourself in the gymnasium (gymnos = 'naked'), prove that you are not indifferent to the difference between perfect and imperfect, demonstrate to us that achievement - excellence, arete, virtu - has not remained a foreign word to you, admit that you have motives for new endeavours! Above all: only grant the suspicion that sport is a pastime for the most stupid as much space as it deserves, do not misuse it as a pretext to drift further in your customary state of self-neglect, distrust the philistine in yourself who thinks you are just fine as you are! Hear the voice from the stone, do not resist the call to get in shape! Seize the chance to train with a god!

Peter Sloterdijk

Love is a contact sport you were born to win.

Suzette R. Hinton

The sunrise was the most amazing part of the day. The quiet of the block seemed even more silent when I watched the light make its way effortlessly into the world. Its serenity bathed itself in the rose colored light above bleeding into the sky. The road was vulnerable. The pink and the orange seeped onto the street and lit up my path, just for me. I saw it in front of my feet and it pulled me forward, my footsteps hitting the gravel. I wanted to run into it, to dive feet first and plunge into the harmony of my safe haven. It serenaded me into a calm sense of security. A calm idea that everything was just the way it was supposed to, and everything else, would always get better. Siempre mejorando.

Adriana Rodrigues

OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless.

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.

The sports pages are men's pages, although they are not presented as such. /.../ On foreign fields, the men win their trophies, or lose their honour, doing battle on the nation's behalf. The readers, mainly men, are invited to see these male exploits in terms of the whole homeland, and, thus, men's concerns are presented as if defining the whole national honour.The parallel between sport and warfare seems obvious...

It is naive to think that sport is above politics, that any kind of level playing field exists, or that sport allows the world to put its problems on hold.

Amy Bass

while you play bowling with one ball you will be late because untill come in that ball it's need time so you need more than one ball in order to defeat the whole army .

Traditional angling is a mindset. So,have you set your mind?

Running is an effort to escape from comfort zone.

Tumpal Sihombing

Football is the poetry of a motion.

Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

As in diamonds so in batting, perfection requires flawlessness and nowhere is a batting imperfection more quickly recognised than in the dropped catch. For this reason any innings worthy of consideration deserves to have all its flaws studied to establish whether or not it is the genuine gem or just masquerading as one under the glitter of big hitting or weight of runs.

Patrick Ferriday

Acceptance of the danger is of the essence for playing a quality sport.

When it comes to carving out a unique niche in the over-congested world of football ‘personalities,’ Jürgen Norbert Klopp has it down.

He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.

Michael Braccia

The best game ever played was in Monday 3/21/2016, 2 games were played for 40 minutes class sport and in both I win and I and my friend we were going on the 3 game, but unfortunately we didn't finished it. But from here it can be see that I'm the winner!

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Has anyone ever noticed that when ethnic Australians excel in sport they are heralded "Aussies"; but when something goes wrong they are thrown the "go back to where you came from" line? WAKE UP RACISTS.

Miya Yamanouchi

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