Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership. — Daley Thompson
Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport. — Serge Schmemann
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant. — Richard Attias
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent. — Dick Vitale
Sports are my passion and I really enjoy connecting with others who share my love of the game — Tessa Bonhomme
Sports is the toy department of human life. — Howard Cosell
Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship. — George Will
Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide. — Bob Cousy
Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way. — Jim Courier
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy. — Emma Bunton
The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing. — Chuck Noll
Short Great Sport Quotes
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. — Knute Rockne
Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport. — Tommy Hilfiger
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. — Tom Landry
Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances. — Roger Bannister
Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day. — Phil Knight
Good sportsmanship goes beyond the game; it starts with respect. — Tommy Hilfiger
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. — Avery Brundage
The game honors toughness — Brad Stevens
It's a game of integrity. There's no referees out there. We all respect each other. — Jordan Spieth
A good sportsman always puts the best face on defeat. — Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan Aly Khan
Top 10 Great Sport Quotes
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. — Wilma Rudolph
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters. — Herman Edwards
I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you. — Seve Ballesteros
You must show no mercy...nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you...for your greatness will silence them all. — The Ultimate Warrior
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that. — Jerry West
Great Sport Image Quotes
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. — Paul Tournier
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. — George Edward Woodberry
Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle. — Wilma Rudolph
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. — Dean Smith
You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours. — Herb Brooks
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. — Seneca
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. — Bill Walton
Silence is a source of great strength.
Good Sport Quotes
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket. — Gino Bartali
Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom. — Jack LaLanne
When you see a good move, look for a better one. — Emanuel Lasker
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city. — Oscar Wilde
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential. — Bobby Orr
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. — Don Shula
You always think as an organization, obviously if you're in sports, you want to be with ESPN. ESPN is it. But you don't really realize how good ESPN is and how big their platform really is until you're in it. — Dana White
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day. — Willie Mays
Great Tennis Quotes
The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. — Martina Navratilova
Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands. — Novak Djokovic
I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court. — John McEnroe
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
You have to believe on the court. In the end, it's mental. In these moments against a great champion like Rafa, you have to believe. It's all about stepping in and taking your chances. I always believed, but it's a process of learning. — Novak Djokovic
Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there. — Venus Williams
The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance. — Andre Agassi
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers. — David Feherty
It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose. — Sandy Lyle
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
A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible. — Maria Sharapova
Great Football Quotes
I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person. — Iker Casillas
If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens — J. J. Watt
I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here. — Bill Belichick
There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it. — Jim Harbaugh
Hungry is a word that I've been analyzing here of late. It's not hunger that drives me, it's not hunger that needs to drive our football team. Hunger and thirst are things that can be quenched. We have to be a driven group, we have to seek greatness. — Mike Tomlin
I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time. — Ronaldinho
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day. — Ray Lewis
A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order. — Bud Grant
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. — Pele
Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football. — Jim Harbaugh
Great Soccer Quotes
He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something. — Cristiano Ronaldo
What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment. — Thierry Henry
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life. — George Best
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
I think sport can play a really positive role in young girls’ lives and be great to see as many of them playing sport as possible. — Ellyse Perry
There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning. — John Piper
I got to move on. I got to keep making winning plays. I got to keep competing. I got to keep finding ways to help my team be great. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing. — Ellyse Perry
That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on. — John Lambie
I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles. I want to achieve things. — Paul Pogba
The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona. — Diego Maradona
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are. — Muhammad Ali
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. — Vern Law
Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble. — Sugar Ray Robinson
The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic. — Jake LaMotta
Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers. — Magic Johnson
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great. — Billie Jean King
Great moments are born from great opportunities. — Herb Brooks
The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great. — Shaquille O'Neal
The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed. — Edward Ruscha
The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team. — Frosty Westering
I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have. — Tony La Russa
History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses. — John Eliot
Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know. — Anna Sewell
A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion. — Evander Holyfield
This is your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw 'em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it! — Herb Brooks
The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool. — Dennis Hastert
I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father. — Deion Sanders
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