Sports Quotes

It’s amazing how two thin pieces of clothing can hold such deep memories. Laughter, pain, victory, defeat, friendship, fatigue, elation… they’re all there, but only to the person who’s worn the uniform

~ Wendelin Van Draanen

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

~ Mia Hamm

To be a professional you have to act like one as well..

~ Alcurtis Turner

A man with new ideas is a madman, until his ideas triumph.

~ Marcelo Bielsa

Racing is an escape from society. From symbols of status, and self-perception. A chance to just be. For everyone to just be, with each other.

~ Erin Beresini

The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he stands at the center of hostile crowd-noise and lines up the free-throw that will decide the game might well be: nothing at all.

~ David Foster Wallace

As I run I tell myself to think of a river. And clouds. But essentially I'm not thinking of a thing. All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.

~ Haruki Murakami

I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.

~ Pat Conroy

Basketball is not just a game its a way of living if you apply it to everyday life.

~ Alcurtis Turner

The idea here is simple, if you can dream it, it is possible.

~ Ernest Riveras Tobia

I have to race because racing is a part of me. But I had to learn to race from a place of joy. Not pain. Not sorrow. Not anger. Not to fix things I can’t control. But for a connection with other people. With the wilderness. With myself.

~ Erin Beresini

Wisdom of the Ages Assault and Battery Weather forecast for the St. Louis Rams next Sunday in Seattle.

~ Matthew D. Heines

Walking to the net, I'm certain that I've lost to the better man, the Everest of the next generation. I pity the young players who will have to contend with him. I feel for the man who is fated to play Agassi to his Sampras. Though I don't mention Pete by name, I have him uppermost in my mind when I tell reporters: It's real simple. Most people have weaknesses. Federer has none.

~ Andre Agassi

In Texas, two things are cherished above all else- football and gossip.

~ Cora Carmack

The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other official spokesmen for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends....

~ Hunter S. Thompson

And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn't forever. The high eventually melts away and the journey of life begins afresh. The truly remarkable among us visit these highs periodically; winning then becomes a journey, a graph where each point is crucial but is in reality merely part of a larger curve.

~ Harsha Bhogle

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

~ H.g. Wells

'Why are you yelling at the television when you know they cannot hear you?' 'You wouldn't understand,' said Asher, his gaze locked on the screen. 'It's a human thing.'

~ Rowan Mcbride

If you put the time and work into getting better therefore that is called practice, anything that you practice you will definitely get better.

~ Alcurtis Turner

Owen Owens Field embodies the name of the team that calls it home. It's Spartan to the core.

~ Neil Hayes

The recruiter didn't bother to introduce himself when Alumbaugh extended his hand. Instead, he turned to Aliotti and said: He's not six-foot-one.Nice to meet you, too, Alumbaugh thought.

~ Neil Hayes

If we had played Poly a hundred more times that year we wouldn't have beaten them again. On that night we found a way. It was an unbelievable thing. It was a marvelous, miraculous win. -Coach Frank Allocco

~ Neil Hayes

Understatement has become part of the tradition. A proposal to build a history room to house the football team's memorabilia was immediately shelved when many former players complained. What makes this program so special is what you carry in your heart, they argued, not what you hang on the wall.

~ Neil Hayes

He hadn't developed into the accomplished running quarterback many had predicted he would become over the course of the season.But he had come to personify this team. He was raw and untested when the season began, but he played his two best games in the two biggest games on the schedule. He wasn't the player anybody expected him to be, but he got the job done-at times spectacularly.

~ Neil Hayes

This is the very structure of sports journalism: deification and damnation, death and resurrection, failure and redemption. You succeed so you can falter so you can succeed again. We need a rise and a fall. We need hubris and retribution and recovery.

~ Will Leitch

Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand.

~ Allan Dare Pearce

Something that you love so much you would be willing to die for it.

~ Alcurtis Turner

One hit, one moan of fractured air, one solid impact and the man went down.

~ L.g. Kelso

What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown.

~ Matt Long

Rule #12: The correct number of bikes to own is N+1, where N is the number of bikes currently owned.

~ The Velominati

Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.

~ Bernd Heinrich

Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.

~ Chrissie Wellington

I find it surreal, then perfectly normal. I'm struck by how fast the surreal becomes the norm. I marvel at how unexciting it is to be famous, how mundane famous people are. They're confused, uncertain, insecure, and often hate what they do. It's something we always hear - like that old adage that money can't buy happiness-but we never believe it until we see it ourselves. Seeing it in 1992 brings me a new measure of confidence.

~ Andre Agassi

Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.

~ Richard Russo

I don't get it. Basketball is so supremely boring. I can't understand the point of watching ten giants running from one end of the field--court--to the other throwing an orange ball through a hoop in the air. I guess it's better than golf, but so is watching paint dry.

~ Carter Quinn

The sports pages are men's pages, although they are not presented as such. /.../ On foreign fields, the men win their trophies, or lose their honour, doing battle on the nation's behalf. The readers, mainly men, are invited to see these male exploits in terms of the whole homeland, and, thus, men's concerns are presented as if defining the whole national honour.The parallel between sport and warfare seems obvious...

~ Michael Billig

I've been let in on a dirty little secret: winning changes nothing. Now that I've won a slam, I know something that very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last as long as the bad. Not even close.

~ Andre Agassi

Who you are as a person far outweighs what you do in an athletic arena.

~ Chris Matakas

A ball feels different off every player's racket-there are minute but concrete subtleties of force and spin. Now, hitting with her (Steffi Graf), I feel her subtleties. It's like touching her, though we're forty feet apart. Every forehand is foreplay.

~ Andre Agassi

She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

~ Simone Elkeles