Sports Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Athletes and Teams

Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even thinking about driving.

- Deborah Moggach

2

To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. It has to be, or it could not last a season out. Crookedness and baseball do not mix. It has become immeasurably more popular as the years have gone by. It will be greater yet. This year, 1919, is the greatest season of them all.

- Charles Comiskey

2

They say golf is like life... gold is more complicated than that

- Gardner Dickinson

5

The man who complains about the way the ball BOUNCES is likely the one who DROPPED it

- Lou Holtz

5

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

- Lou Holtz

4

I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.

- Goran Ivanisevic

3

Pitch within yourself.

- Tom Seaver

8

We're lucky to play football, to have all this body. Everyone's watching us. You see how many people, they come and watch the game. They shout your name and just enjoy life.

- Paul Pogba

2

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.

- Demetri Martin

1

Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake.

- David James Duncan

4

Well Kerry, you're 19 and you're a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself.

- Mike Gray.

1

I took a back seat and did whatever it took for the team to win.

- James Harden

4

We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.

- Dan Gable

1

If Walt Disney had seen this little man's antics, there'd have been no Mickey Mouse.

- Peter Sterling

2

Winning isn't getting ahead of OTHERS. It's getting ahead of YOURSELF.

- Roger Staubach

8

Staying in the present helps. If you start thinking about past, you always feel hurt. But it's important to forget about past. You can only take your learning out of it.

- Mahendra Singh Dhoni

11

My No. 1 thing is to win a World Series. The rest comes as it comes.

- Mookie Betts

3

Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

- Woodie Held

1

Every shot counts. The three-foot putt is as important as the 300 yard drive.

- Henry Cotton

5

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

- Imran Khan

9

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Babe Ruth

14

Success in golf depends less on strength of body more on strength of mind and character.

- Arnold Palmer

1

I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player.

- Pele

2

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

- James Hetfield

1

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

- Jack Lemmon

1

Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation—but most of all, of reciprocity. Of teamwork. There is no way to freelance in volleyball.

- Marv Dunphy

3

It's the road signs, 'Beware of lions.'

- Kip Lagat

1

Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.

- Heyneke Meyer

1

The pub is as much a part of rugby as is the playing field.

- John Dickenson

1

Intensity builds immensity.

- Kevin Levrone

3

I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas.

- Kevin Durant

2

How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?

- Eddie Guerrero

3

For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it's a complete physical expression of freedom.

- Robert Redford

1

One of my all-time favorite workouts is boxing.

- Cassie Scerbo

1

You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

2

Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.

- Saina Nehwal

3

When you're not practicing, someone else is getting better.

- Allen Iverson

17

The key to handling pressure is to enjoy it when you're confronted with it rather than worry about it too much.

- Steve Waugh

16

I do doubles on Monday and Thursday, take Wednesday off or do easy cardio, do doubles on Thursday and Friday, and the weekend I just get outside and get active - jog or bike ride, or play tennis with my mom.

- Mikaela Shiffrin

5

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

- Shaquille O'Neal

1

Most one-run games are lost, not won.

- Gene Mauch

1

When I train, I erase all the limits and expectations of what I can do. I am powerful and anything is possible.

- Camille Leblanc-Bazinet

1

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

- Virat Kohli

4

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

- Ken Harrelson

2

The top three worst things I've seen in hockey? The invention of the trap. The invention of the morning skate. And the invention of the extremely ugly uniform.

- Brett Hull

2

Only passions. great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

- Zhang Jike

3

I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.

- Mikaela Shiffrin

1

The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.

- Michael Winter

9

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

- Dave Barry

1

Lacrosse seems to be a sport of the future. Maybe it's even become the sport of the now.

- Chris Hall

1

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