Sports Quotes

I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honour of the Greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!

The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits - good and bad. So the key to the game is to exploit the bad habits of your opponent.

The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.

I'm going to be the Will Smith of the NBA.

What you want to do with your best players is, it doesn't matter how many goals and assists they get, but when they get goals and assists. The best players get them at the most important times, and that's when we need those guys to come through.

Get up sucker and fight. Get up and fight

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.

I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

I think the greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can't replace that experience with anything.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

As a player, you have one responsibility, to focus yourself and be ready for the game. As a coach, your responsibility is to get 20 guys ready and have them all on the same page. If you can't get every guy ready every night, you're going to struggle.

I got to ninth grade and there was wrestling, and I went, 'Wait a minute, this is fun.' Basically, it was a chance for a small kid like me to get a chance to wail on another small kid. I went, 'I love this.' The discipline of it was great. Plus, I really started to be good at it.

I'm not into sports. I mean...I like Gatorade, but that's as far as it goes.

Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.

My best friend had a hockey scholarship at Ohio State, so I would get a couple of pairs at the beginning of the season and send them down to him. They practised two hours a day. He'd skate in them for three weeks then ship them back.

Competitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.

Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad.

One time I was forced to go to the doctors because of a sports accident. Herpes.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.

I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

Hockey is my life. I love every minute of it.

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

When I was playing soccer at the age of 14, the first thing we'd do before going out onto the field would be to climb up on one another's thighs and massage the legs; it was a regular thing. None of us had a thought of being gay, absolutely not, and it's the same with most bodybuilders.

Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere.

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

The great thing about golf - and this is the reason why a lot of health experts like me recommend it - you can drink beer and ride in a cart while you play.

I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

I'd take 12 guys who had a strong passion for the game over 12 guys who don't respect the game.

I'm LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game.

The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.

You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you.

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

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

I hated skiing or any other sport where there was an ambulance waiting at the bottom of the hill.

Running isn't a sport because anyone can do it. Anything we can all do can't be a sport. I can run, you can run. My mother can run, you don't see her on the cover of Sports Illustrated do you?

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

We're not winning because of talent. We're just beating bad teams.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent.