Quotes and Sayings about Sports

You really need to consider the message you're sending this boys by ending the lockout. It's the same message that we as a culture send to our professional athletes; and that is that they are above the law. If these boys cannot honor the simple rules of a basketball contract, how long do you think it will be before they're out there breaking the law? I played ball here at Richmond High 30 years ago. It was the same thing then; some of my teammates went to prison, some of them even ended up dead. If you vote to end the lockout, you won't have to terminate me; I'll quit.

Ken Carter in Coach Carter

Basketball

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.

Bill Belichick

Talent

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

Louis Zamperini

Giving Up Motivation

When you go running from 23:59 to 00:01, you worked out two days in a row. Doesn't sound bad, does it?

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

Yao Ming

Communication

What I really love about sports isn't winning, ya know? It's having to fight and struggle and give it all you got to reach the top.

Aoi Asahina in Danganronpa

When you're rowing a race and you get to the last 20 meters your entire body is telling you to stop. Your muscles are on fire. Your lungs are screaming at you. Everything inside you wants to quit, make the pain go away. But if you want to win, that's exactly when you dig deeper and you row harder.

Skylar in The In Between

Ambition

People always ask me, "what is your secret?" I'll tell you what the secret is: Work your a-s off in the gym, 14 times a week.

Markus Rühl

You don't quit in sports. You retire. You don't get to quit. It's not an option.

Herm Edwards

If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.

Marv Levy

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

Walter Payton

Jogging is the worst. I know it keeps you healthy, but God, at what cost?

Ann Perkins in Parks and Recreation - Season 4 Episode 7

Jogging

Sometimes it's just enough to keep your body moving. I get depressed if I don't move.

Ryan Reynolds

When you read biographies of Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Pete Sampras or Roger Federer, you will often stumble upon the word "humility".

Thomas Tuchel

Michael Jordan Tiger Woods Pete Sampras Roger Federer Humility

Fitness has nothing to do with age.

Virender Sehwag

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

Emil Zatopek

Physical fitness is extremely important to me. Only if you are fit will you be able to achieve whatever you want to achieve in life; you will be able to pursue your dreams, your ambition, you goals, and the things you love.

Urvashi Rautela

Motivation

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

Derek Jeter

Motivation

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Heywood Broun

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Kobe Bryant

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

Pete Sampras

Ambition

Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.

Martina Navratilova

Tennis

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Michael Jordan

Fun

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

Lance Armstrong

Ambition

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Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8

Breakup Beginning Motivation

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas

Work Motivation

Perfection is impossible. In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches. But what percentage of points did I win? 54%! In other words, even top ranked tennis players win barely more than half the points they play. When you lose every second point on average, you learn not to dwell on every shot.

Roger Federer - June 2024

Tennis

I went jogging to get rid of the extra pounds I gained during lockdown. Didn't work at all.
Wait, am I supposed to do this more than once?

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Boxing is the most beautiful thing after women.

Canelo Álvarez

Boxen

If there is no blood on the line, it is not rugby league.

Russell Crowe

Rugby

Baseball is more than a sport, it's what drives me.

Corey Seager - May 2021

Baseball

Nothing happens in cricket, ever. Even the highlights resemble a freeze frame.

Charlie Brooker

Cricket

I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I'm really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.

Ewan McGregor

Golf

You can't be careful on a skateboard.

Stephen King in It

Skating

But there was a hockey game where they didn't even play hockey, they just threw the puck aside and started fighting.

Richard Sherman

Hockey

Life is not fair, get used to it!

Bill Gates

Life Fairness

They're tricking kids into building their own playground. And I gotta tell you, this exact same thing happened to me back home in Asia, and by the time we were done "playing", we had finished a whole new line of Nike's.

Ronny Chieng in The Daily Show

Nike

Hey, ref, check your voicemail! I think you've missed a few calls!

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 9

Referees

But what's the point of breathing if somebody already tells you the difference between an apple and a bicycle? If I bite a bicycle and ride an apple, then I'll know the difference.

Axel Blackmar in Arizona Dream

Bicycles Apples

I can literally say antisemitic shit and they can't drop me. Now what?

Kanye West - October 2022, 9 days before being dropped by Adidas

Mistakes Adidas

Handball is passion, teamwork, and endless determination. On the court, sweat and tears merge as the ball flies from hand to hand. Every shot, every save, every goal is a triumph of dedication. Handball is more than a game - it is a way of life.

Handball

No, that's not how life works. There's only, like, three ways to become popular: To be a cheerleader, to work at Abercrombie, or to let guys go in the back door.

Stephanie Conway in Senior Year

High School Cheerleaders

I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

Muhammad Ali

Ambition Training

They fire coaches before players.

Doug Pederson

Coaches

The heart is a muscle, and what do muscles do when they're torn? They grow back stronger.

Heart Muscles

Sweat is the urine of the skin.

Sheldon Cooper in Young Sheldon - Season 4 Episode 3

Sweating Skin

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

Nicole Scherzinger

Ambition Egoism

I stand with those who are calling out the ingrained racism and violence toward people of color in our country. We have had enough.

Michael Jordan - June 2020

Racism 2020 Death of George Floyd

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

Pete Sampras

Tennis

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