Sports Quotes

Running isn't a sport for pretty boys...It's about the sweat in your hair and the blisters on your feet. Its the frozen spit on your chin and the nausea in your gut. It's about throbbing calves and cramps at midnight that are strong enough to wake the dead. It's about getting out the door and running when the rest of the world is only dreaming about having the passion that you need to live each and every day with. It's about being on a lonely road and running like a champion even when there's not a single soul in sight to cheer you on. Running is all about having the desire to train and persevere until every fiber in your legs, mind, and heart is turned to steel. And when you've finally forged hard enough, you will have become the best runner you can be. And that's all that you can ask for.

~ Paul Maurer

Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.

~ Mia Hamm

With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.

~ Criss Jami

The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter.

~ Dave Barry

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

~ John Bingham

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

~ Dave Barry

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

~ Dave Barry

I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating.

~ Dave Barry

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

~ Babe Ruth

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

~ Amit Ray

I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.

~ Harry Crews

If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and stuck in the past. The only thing you have any control over is the present moment; simple breathing exercises can make us calm and present instantly.

~ Tobe Hanson

Almost all accidents and injuries happen when an individual is not being present and not paying attention to what they are doing.

~ Tobe Hanson

Soccer forces life to move on. There’s always a new match. A new season. There’s always a dream that everything can get better. It’s a game of wonders.

~ Fredrik Backman

He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.

~ Collette West

GrayG: I feel like I can tell you anything.IvyMac: You can. That's what friends do.GrayG: I've never been friends with a girl before.IvyMac: I'm honored to be your first.

~ Kristen Callihan

Our lives are mere flashes of light in an infinitely empty universe. In 12 years of education the most important lesson I have learned is that what we see as “normal” living is truly a travesty of our potential. In a society so governed by superficiality, appearances, and petty economics, dreams are more real than anything anything in the “real world”. Refuse normalcy. Beauty is everywhere, love is endless, and joy bleeds from our everyday existence. Embrace it. I love all of you, all my friends, family, and community. I am ceaselessly grateful from the bottom of my heart for everyone. The only thing I can ask of you is to stay free of materialism. Remember that every day contains a universe of potential; exhaust it. Live and love so immensely that when death comes there is nothing left for him to take. Wealth is love, music, sports, learning, family and freedom. Above all, stay gold.

~ Dominic Owen Mallary

I didn't cry when they buried my father - I wouldn't let myself. I didn't cry when they buried my sister. On Thursday night, with my family asleep upstairs, my eyes filled as Agassi and Marcos Baghdatis played out the fifth set of their moving second-round match.

~ Greg Garber

Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.

~ Amit Kalantri

In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.

~ Amit Kalantri

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

~ Amit Kalantri

No matter the disappointment, you simply cannot divorce your favorite team.

~ Kevin Walker

Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream.

~ James Ross

Dancing dismiss distress.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense, so rare, and so fleeting that we associate their experience with experience otherwise described as religious or we say the sports experience must be the tattered remnant of an experience which was once described, when first felt, as religious.

~ A. Bartlett Giamatti

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

~ Bobby Orr

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!

~ Tiger Woods

Where can you find opportunities? Dissect your excuses and you will find opportunities in abundance.

~ T. Jay Taylor

Success may require a lot of days. But progress only requires one.

~ T. Jay Taylor

If you're looking for the easy challenge, you're not cut out for success.

~ T Jay Taylor

Your productivity will double with increase physical activity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sports bars are also a great place for guys to meet other guys--either for sex or for wrestling, whichever feels more right.

~ Eugene Mirman

Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times over. To hell with the pain. What's six minutes of pain compared to the pain they're going to feel for the next six months or six decades. You never forget your wins and losses in this sport. YOU NEVER FORGET.

~ Brad Alan Lewis

Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

~ Sarah Dessen

Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot.

~ Thisuri Wanniarachchi

The team that keeps winning is not the most talented but the most hard-working.

~ Zoltan Andrejkovics

The waves of changes propel advancement.

~ Zoltan Andrejkovics

I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my inability to work up a passion for the location of balls.

~ Haven Kimmel

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.

~ George Brett

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.

~ Nick Hornby