Life Quotes

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

~ Joyce Meyer

I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

~ Conor Mcgregor

The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life.

~ Robert Kennedy

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

~ Bob Lemon

You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.

~ Brandi Chastain

Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

~ Caitlyn Jenner

Life is about timing.

~ Carl Lewis

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

~ Barry Switzer

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

~ Jim Bouton

People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.

~ Ralph Baer

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

~ Caitlyn Jenner

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

~ Lindsey Vonn

Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For me, I do 'Hedwig,' and I see it's a midlife crisis maybe, and I see what's next. And it's a good trampoline, maybe, into the next part of my life.

~ John Cameron Mitchell

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

~ Charlie Kaufman

I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.

~ Kerri Strug

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

~ Robert Redford

Sports is the toy department of human life.

~ Howard Cosell

Where there is peace, there is sports; where there is sports, there is peace. Peace is what allows us, especially young people, to dream, go after one's goals and prepare you for the next challenge in life.

~ Kim Yuna

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

~ Nolan Ryan

You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.

~ Paul Allen

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

~ Willie Mays

I have always maintained that if you work hard, it won't go waste, as recognition will come to you at some stage, whether in studies or sports. You need to have good intentions and intent to move ahead in life as well as in sports.

~ Suresh Raina

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston's newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.

~ Hannah Storm

Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.

~ Sarita Choudhury

Sports is human life in microcosm.

~ Howard Cosell

When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

~ Andrew Luck

I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.

~ Venus Williams

The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.

~ David Shields

It's always been such a big part of my life to be fit and healthy and be outside and run and play sports. It gives me energy. Sometimes, I have these days where I don't do anything because I have the days off, and I just need to relax, and I actually get more tired.

~ Caroline Wozniacki

Sports saved my life.

~ Caitlyn Jenner

My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.

~ Caitlyn Jenner

I love sports - I used to play volleyball really competitively...I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers, and I've ridden horses my whole life.

~ Gigi Hadid

When you play sports like tennis, you're alone, and that's a good school for life, but it's also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too - helping others in difficult moments.

~ Jurgen Klopp

For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.

~ Meghan Daum

I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.

~ Adam Driver

Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.

~ Fabrizio Moreira

I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

~ Daniel Cormier

Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.

~ Sugar Ray Leonard

I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.

~ Ben Zobrist