Sports Quotes

He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him.It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he hadgladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical facultyhousing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a youngboy sprang from his love of museums’ wide open spaces.

~ Dan Brown

I love football. I love the aesthetics of football. I love the athleticism of football. I love the movement of the players, the antics of the coaches. I love the dynamism of the fans. I love their passion for their badge and the colour of their team and their country. I love the noise and the buzz and the electricity in the stadium. I love the songs. I love the way the ball moves and then it flows and the way a teams fortune rises and falls through a game and through a season. But what I love about football is that it brings people together across religious divides, geographic divides, political divides. I love the fact that for ninety minutes in a rectangular piece of grass, people can forget hopefully, whatever might be going on in their life, and rejoice in this communal celebration of humanity. The biggest diverse, invasive or pervasive culture that human kinds knows is football and I love the fact that at the altar of football human kind can come worship and celebrate.

~ Andy Harper

He was known to hit low, drive upward from the hips, and flip other boys over his shoulder and onto their backs, knocking the wind out of them on the glass-littered asphalt, sometimes causing a fumble and always inciting cheers from onlookers up and down the street––especially when he punctuated the hit with the words Patent that!...This permissible violence was unique in that it elicited respect from the victim rather than calls for retribution.

~ Jeff Hobbs

Nothing was being done to help the non-dopers, to encourage or support them. Even the clean riders like myself and Moncout knew how easy it was to cheat the tests.

~ David Millar

He speaks in that strange sports talk, telling me about the start of the new season and asks if I follow baseball. No. I really don’t. He assures me if I stay in town long enough I will become a baseball fan. It’s a requirement of living in St. Louis. Everyone is a Cardinal’s fan. “Loyal,” he tells me. St. Louis is a loyal town.

~ Gwenn Wright

I'm not sure who invented dodgeball, but I can almost guarantee you that it wasn't the shortest kid in the class.

~ John Bingham

Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.

~ H.c. Paye

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

~ Billie Jean King

Higher-level capture devices, because they are complicated and involve novel applications of new technologies, tend to fail in unexpected ways. Thus, only after some years was it realized that Hot Spot may not work well if the weather is very hot and that it may fail to detect a slight contact if the edge of the bat is greasy.

~ Harry Collins

Toward the end of Carmel's life, the perception of super talls shifted dramatically, thanks largely to televised NBA games, By 1975, pretty much everyone had seen super tall people on TV, in the context of being celebrated in front of sold-out basketball arenas. This new frame of reference could not have been more positive. By 1995 Shaquille O'Neal was known as The Man of Steel, not the Traveling Human Giant. The idea of super tall people as freaks was replaced by the idea of super tall people as amazing athletes.

~ Arianne Cohen

An eye on the vision is more important than an I on the vision.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Practice hard,Train hard,work hard and Play harder.

~ Alcurtis Turner

When you're up against adversity, when your shots aren't falling, when guys are hanging on you, pushing you, fouling you, and you're not getting calls, that's when discipline matters. Instead of flying off the handle or blaming your teammates, the officials, or the opposition, players have to keep calm and act decisively to change the tide. Playing the blame game is a sure sign that a team has not jelled and is taking the wrong path

~ Walt Frazier

Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.

~ Mariah Burton Nelson

I'm so out of shape I take steroids just to watch sports.

~ Randy Kagan

Play to win but never fear to lose. Win or lose-either way you are a winner.

~ Debasish Mridha

Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our cheering will somehow penetrate the television, travel through the cable system, find its way to the stadium, and influence the trajectory of the ball as it hurtles toward the goalposts!

~ Daniel M. Gilbert

The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge.

~ Dana Reinhardt

Remember – it's a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.

~ Matthew Quick

When you’re a professional athlete, you get paid millions of dollars for doing something that’s not only fun, but also physical and badass. You have fans: pathetic people without their own lives or hopes or dreams that measure their happiness on your weekly performance (this still boggles my mind, but in the best way possible—however, my role as a fan now is quite detached). You get to travel around to different cities and fuck their most beautiful women. You are given license to do pretty much whatever you want all the time, and are forgiven easily and often instantly when caught doing anything illegal. Professional athletes can literally get away with murder.

~ A.d. Aliwat

Age does not count. It’s what you know about football that matters.

~ David Peace

It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn.

~ Melina Marchetta

I don´t complain about playing time. My job is to do so well the coach can´t sit me.

~ Shane Battier

Athletes are born winners, there not born loosers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become sucessful in life.

~ Charles R. Sledge Jr.

That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165)

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body is busy at noble tasks, creativity flows like water in a stream: the artist creates, the writer writes.

~ Roman Payne

The smell of hot popcorn drifted upward from the concourse below, lingering in the warm Californian air like an atmospheric irony, and a Jumbotron directly in front of me displayed a blandly handsome announcer seated behind a curved desk emblazoned with DARPA’s logo: a sports broadcast mise-en-scène from some speculative future, vaguely fascist, in which the machinery of national defense had become a spectacle of mass entertainment.

~ Mark O'connell

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.

~ David Millar

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another.

~ Bill Murray

You know how when you step on court your coach is like go go go!? And all throughout you just keep telling yourself to hit harder and harder and keep at it? You know how much you treasure those five-minute timeouts? You know how good you feel at the end of a session? You know how you're glad you're tired? No pills, no shots, just plain energy. I want to work like that. Whether I have to write ten thousand words or send five hundred emails, brainstorm for hours at a time, I want to have that energy. To keep fighting. To know it's all worth it. Oh, yeah. That's my perfect day.

~ Thisuri Wanniarachchi

Football is the poetry of a motion.

~ Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

~ Tiger Woods

If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.

~ David Millar

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

~ Ayrton Senna

There's no such things as coulda, shoulda, woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

~ Pat Riley

Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.

~ Vernon D. Burns

It's not about the games it's about practice and when you practice, go hard!!

~ Alcurtis Turner

Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

~ Dean Karnazes

It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal

What the hell happened to your leg? Ang asked him. Matt looked down at his shin, which was scraped and oozing and seemed to be caked in mud. Crashed.Crashed what? Ang asked. My mountain bike. We just got back.You crashed, then what? Rolled in dirt?He laughed. Something like that actually. It's not a successful ride if you don't bleed. He must not have noticed the look of horror on my face, because he asked, suddenly enthusiastic, You guys ride?Angelo and I just looked at each other, and he seemed to realize that was a no. Too bad. Well, make yourselves at home. Beer's in the fridge. I have to get cleaned up. Kickoff's in ten minutes.Football? Angelo asked. Matt looked at his as if he had just asked if the sky was really blue. Yeah! First game of the regular season! We just stared blankly at him, and he just laughed and disappeared down the hall. Angelo looked at me with a smile on his face. Four fags watchin' football. Must be pretty fuckin' cold in hell right now.

~ Marie Sexton