Sports Quotes And Sayings From Sportsmen, Coaches, And Others

by allinspiration.com

“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.”
– Knute Rockne

“These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.”
– Kobe Bryant

“I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.”
– Kurt Russell

“You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.”
– Lee Trevino

“Honestly, I don’t listen to nobody else’s music but my own. It’s kind of like sports to me. You don’t see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game – he just works on his own game. And that’s what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.”
– Lil Wayne

“The score never interested me, only the game.”
– Mae West

“If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“I haven’t celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.”
– Mark Messier

“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”
– Mark Twain

“It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.”
– Mark Twain

“The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.”
– Martin Mull

“I could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write ‘sports sports sports sports sports’ for three pages.”
– Megan Boyle, Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee

“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, Saving Francesca

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

“If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they’ve won.”
– Mia Hamm

“Many people say I’m the best women’s soccer player in the world. I don’t think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.”
– Mia Hamm

“You don’t just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again.”
– Mia Hamm

“As athletes, we’re used to reacting quickly. Here, it’s ‘come, stop, come, stop.’ There’s a lot of downtime. That’s the toughest part of the day.”
– Michael Jordan

“Don’t let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.”
– Michael Jordan

“I realize I’m black, but I’d like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody’s wish.”
– Michael Jordan

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan

“I’ve never lost a game I just ran out of time.”
– Michael Jordan

“Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”
– Michael Jordan

“I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.”
– Michael Phelps

“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”
– Michael Phelps

“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
– Michel de Montaigne

“For truly it is to be noted, that children‘s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.”
– Michel de Montaigne

“Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.”
– Mike Singletary

“I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.”
– Mike Tyson

“Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples – where I’m pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.”
– Mitt Romney

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