Sports Quotes - Page 5

• If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

  Vince Lombardi

  Softball, Athlete, Winning

  "The Winner-Takes-All Society" by Chris Wallace, www.guernicamag.com. March 25, 2014.

  119 Copy quote

  Show source

• I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Men, Wind, Bags

  On refusing permission for a team from Cornell University to visit Michigan to play a game of American football. Quoted in D Wallechinsky The People's Almanac (1975).

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'll let the racket do the talking.

  John McEnroe

  Funny, Volleyball, Athlete

  The Times (London), June 26, 1984.

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb in the first-person plural. We.

  Wanderlei Silva

  Player, Squad, Verbs

  9 Copy quote

• It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

  John Bentley

  Men, Games, Play

  53 Copy quote

• I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

  Erma Bombeck

  Hills, Skiing, Skis

  61 Copy quote

• One man cannot make a team.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Teamwork

  23 Copy quote

• In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game which can unite people and generations! It's a language which you'll find people "speak" in every country. If you reach a certain level you find a very rich world! Art, sport, logic, psychology, a battlefield, imagination, creativity not only in practical games but don't forget either how amazing a feeling it is to compose a study, for example (unfortunately that's not appreciated these days but it's a fantastic part of chess!).

  Judit Polgar

  Girl, Country, Art

  42 Copy quote
• 

  All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

  Gordie Howe

  Hockey, Player, Nhl

  100 Copy quote
• 

  I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

  683 Copy quote

  Show source

• A true champion is someone who wants to make a difference, who never gives up, and who gives everything she has no matter what the circumstances are. A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.

  Dot Richardson

  Softball, Dream, Perseverance

  69 Copy quote

• One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  94 Copy quote

• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

  316 Copy quote

  Show source

• Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Determination, Athlete

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

  71 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

  Bo Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

  135 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Soccer, Football, Player

  102 Copy quote

• When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

  Eric Cantona

  Soccer, Thinking, Sea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  189 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Sorry, Cheer

  43 Copy quote

• Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

  Hilary Duff

  Leadership, Softball, I Hate You

  13 Copy quote

• There are a lot of guys who are respected but not liked.

  Ron Santo

  Motivational, Guy

  8 Copy quote

• People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

  Ruben Studdard

  Motivational, Support You, People

  8 Copy quote

• I'm the oldest I've ever been, right now.

  Tim Sylvia

  Funny, Ridiculous, Right Now

  7 Copy quote

• In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

  Althea Gibson

  Hockey, Fields, Accepted

  80 Copy quote

• You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

  Michael Phelps

  Inspirational, Dream, Athlete

  FaceBook post by Michael Phelps from Jan 19, 2012

  77 Copy quote

  Show source

• My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.

  Caroline Rhea

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  101 Copy quote