Sports Quotes

Virtually every tribe in the march towards civilization developed its tailored made initiation practices. In America, sports are part of the test for a young man’s initiation into manhood.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

What mattered to me most when I was batting was feeling comfortable. As long as I felt comfortable, it didn't matter where I was playing or who I was playing against. If you make technical adjustments to cope with different conditions, there's a risk of making yourself feel uncomfortable and of thinking too much about your technique. I've always felt that I've batted best when my mind has been at the bowler's end of pitch, not at my end. There's no time to think about both ends at the same time. So in general it always seemed to me that If I was comfortable with my gear, it would allow my mind to be at the opposite end and I had a better chance of playing well.

~ Sachin Tendulkar

Look. Shit happened. Shit's going to keep happening. You don't need me to tell your life isn't fair. You're here because you know it isn't. Life doesn't care what we want out of it, it's up to us to fight for what we want with everything we've got. Seth wanted us to win. He wanted us to make it past the fourth match. I think we owe it to him to perform. Let's show the world what we've got. Let's make this our year.

~ Nora Sakavic

Basketball Rule #6A great teamhas a good scorerwith a teammatewho's on pointand readyto assist.

~ Kwame Alexander

He only said the one word. A prayer. A supplication. A breath from his heart to mine.

~ C.d. Reiss

Love of sports will always break your heart, but in doing so, it reminds us we have one.

~ Stuart Stevens

Middle Tennessee? Really? My bracket is more busted than Screech's face during puberty.

~ William Shakespeare

You tell me it's the institution.Well, you know, you'd better free you mind instead.But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow.Don't you know it's gonna be all right?

~ John Lennon

But it's all right now.I learned my lesson well.You see, you can't please everyoneSo you've got to please yourself.

~ Rick Nelson

If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win

~ Bill Shankly

Martial Arts does not teach you how to fight, it teaches you why not to.

~ Lakshya Bharadwaj

I wish people had as much enthusiasm about unfucking the planet as they did about sports. Who wins on Sunday is pretty goddamned trivial compared to just about anything else.

~ Michael Brewer

Gods, I love sports. All the excitement of real news, only it doesn't matter so you don't have to worry about it.

~ Max Gladstone

Worse than getting kicked out of your slot to go on to a winning season is to lead during a losing one. Nobody wants to be king of the losers.

~ A.d. Aliwat

There’s a reason why the Super Bowl is watched way more than the NBA Finals and World Series.

~ A.d. Aliwat

My dad bought the team when I was little. I've been around guys like you my whole life. I'm over the whole 'jock-and-awe' thing.

~ Jaci Burton

I want to eat you alive, he wanted to say. I want to sink into you and stay. God, how did this happen so fast? He was dizzy with it, with Jake's passion, his laugh, his growl, the deep brown eyes that darkened with hunger when they looked at him. Brandon shivered and wrapped his arms around Jake's neck to hold on tight.

~ Abigail Roux

Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources.

~ Thomas C. Foster

Sports can unite worlds, tear down walls and transcend race, the past, and all probability. Unlike life, sport matters.

~ Shehan Karunatilaka

This message is brought to you by the BCBS [Booty Call Broadcasting System]. If you are back in town, get your wet ass over here. (The Hook Up, 42%)

~ Kristen Callihan

When we're down and the momentum is stacked against us. Those are the moments when we find out what we're made of. When we learn to trust and lean on each other.

~ Charles Martin

He who thinks he's the best is not the best... And the one who thinks he who thinks he's the best is not the best is also not the best.

~ Suky Achchille

It's nice to be pushed, when you're being pushed in the right direction.

~ Kent Allen

How you harangue referees. How you fall over when you've not been touched. How you make a meal out of every tackle to try and get the other player booked. How you protest when you have nothing to fucking protest about –

~ David Peace

One of the privileges of being an athlete is that on days when I have practice and games, I’m present whether I’m present or not. It’s not fair, but that’s the system. What can I do about it?

~ Erin O'riordan

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

~ Bruce Lee

I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around lying on your couch in a neurotic stupor all day, I'd take an interest.

~ Colson Whitehead

He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off.

~ David Peace

Forget about showering with my fellow students in Tribeca Alternative’s prison-style showers—one nozzle for four to six girls at a time—in the locker room. It was impossible to work up a sweat during what passed for physical education class at TAHS, so there was no need to shower, anyway.Well, impossible for me, considering that, in the past, whenever a volleyball or whatever came near me,I’d always make sure to step calmly away to avoid it. See? No sweat. No need for a shower. Problem solved.

~ Meg Cabot

The more you practice the better you'll be, the harder you train the great in you they'll see.

~ Alcurtis Turner

Football is all about sentiment, if it weren't then we'd all support Manchester United.

~ Mark O'brien

If you make lots of little changes to your lifestyle, you’ll need to make time to have some fun too, otherwise life can get a little boring.

~ Auliq Ice

The upset is in the mind of the favorite.

~ Bo Schembechler

If you just play really hard, he says, nothing else matters.

~ Kekla Magoon

A lost is a lost no matter if you loose by 1 point or 40 points it's still a lost.

~ Alcurtis Turner

readers are saying;“A great story about a fan's love for 'all things sport' ...” Great read. Must buy as a stocking stuffer.“A great piece of work

~ Keith Guernsey

We hear about Tiger Woods as a prodigy at three years old. For every Tiger Woods, there are thousands of kids who never want to touch a golf club again.

~ Michael Sokolove

Emotionally, I was just a mess. But it’s such a long recovery period that you have to come to terms with it. You can’t cry the whole time until you get back on the field.

~ Michael Sokolove

Women cannot compete with men in physical prowess. And why in the name of all that is sane should we? Why not rather have our ambition go into sport for health, endurance, and the mere love of it?

~ Michael Sokolove

Basketball Rule #4If you missenough of life'sfree throwsyou will payin the end.

~ Kwame Alexander