The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. — Novak Djokovic
It’s not a very big sport in the U.S. if you compare it to American football and baseball and the other — Ingemar Stenmark
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions. — Phil Knight
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
Professional sports are something they can't control. — Troy Vincent
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. — Ernest Hemingway
Sports is the toy department of human life. — Howard Cosell
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. — Ernest Hemingway
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite. — Verne Troyer
Sports are my passion and I really enjoy connecting with others who share my love of the game — Tessa Bonhomme
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant. — Richard Attias
In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go. — Andy Roddick
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. — Avery Brundage
I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy. — Emma Bunton
Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day. — Phil Knight
Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership. — Daley Thompson
Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. — Gene Tunney
The most famous athletes throughout the history of time are fighters. — Dana White
BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know. — Donny Robinson
This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf. — Lester B. Pearson
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. — Jeremy London
Popular Sports Image Quotes
Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
Favorite Sports Quotes
My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine. — Caroline Rhea
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. — Ross Perot
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. — Satchel Paige
The real workout starts when you want to stop.
Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish. — Brian Regan
Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement. — Matt Biondi
Jet-skiing is my favorite water sport. — Sharni Vinson
Our bodies are capable of anything. It's our mind we have to convince.
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life. — Pete Rose
I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better. — Xi Jinping
Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David. — Ralph Jordan
If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail. — Mark Spitz
Sports Team Quotes
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning. — George Lincoln Rockwell
A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing. — Tom Landry
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. — Dennis Bergkamp
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose. — Ross Perot
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a vision, a dream.
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons — Strive Masiyiwa
Sports Competition Quotes
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. — Paul Tournier
Do not exchange your dignity for popularity.
School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves. — Naval Ravikant
The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness. — Mia Hamm
I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated — Emmitt Smith
Avoid popularity; it has many snares and no real benefit.
In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up. — Sayings
School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. — Naval Ravikant
I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him — Hansie Cronje
Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves. — Al Oerter
Playing Sports 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
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
Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for. — Ernie Davis
If youre not failing once in a while, it probably means youre not stretching yourself.
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball. — Mickey Mantle
When you see a good move, look for a better one. — Emanuel Lasker
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
My failure gave me strength, my pain was my motivation.
Having the chance to play sports growing up teaches you all kinds of life lessons. It gives young people confidence and instills in them motivation and drive to be the best one can be. It's absolutely invaluable. — April Ross
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city. — Oscar Wilde
People play games seriously. People host tournaments. People watch other people play and listen to broadcasters talking about it. The kind of entire ecosystem we see around other sports and forms of entertainment has formed around games as well. — Jensen Huang
Chess is everything: art, science, and sport. — Anatoly Karpov
If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish. — Hal Borland
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. — Roland Barthes
Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures. — Alan Hirsch
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. — Jean-Claude Killy
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport. — Magnus Carlsen
The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it. — Eduardo Galeano
Sport doesn't build character, it reveals it.
Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. — Nelson Mandela
Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you’re a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency. — Dorothy Dunnett
I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars. — James Ellroy
You can't put a limit anything. — Michael Phelps
My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England. — Roger Bannister
It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register. — Mike Tyson
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. — Lewis H. Lapham
If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery, a voice crying in the wilderness, condemned to live and die on a cold arctic shore. — Michael Basman
This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and will, I am sure, become one of the most popular. Many of us will perish before then, but that prospect will not dismay the braver spirits. . . . It is so delicious to fly like a bird! — Marie Marvingt
Kids don't know the language of figure skating. If you ask them to do a compulsory figure, they don't know how to, and that's so important for the edge quality. I think that's why the older skaters are still as popular as they are - because they have that quality that people are missing in this generation. — Brian Boitano
I assume the only reason we have them is so that white people feel relevant in sports. Because other than that the only thing the winter Olympics show me is which country has more rich white kids. What's it cost to go skiing - $900 a day? I can't believe that's not more popular in the inner cities. — Daniel Tosh
Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace. — Novak Djokovic
Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada. — Steve Nash
When I was in eighth grade said sit in at a graduation party and I played 'Boys' by The Beatles and fifty people were standing around with their mouths open. And you kind of get the hint, well maybe I should do this because I'm not very good at sports, I'm not that popular, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very good looking, but when I played the drums, everybody liked it. — Terry Bozzio
AR-15s, in particular, are often called America's gun. They're some of the most popular rifles in the country, especially when it comes to sports shooting. — Scott Simon
I think we have tremendous media covering the sport of boxing, even if boxing is a little bit lost in popularity with MMA sports. And I think that with the show 'Lights Out' it's going to get more attention to the sport, and it's going to put more attention to the problems that athletes in general have. — Wladimir Klitschko
Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership. — Rachel Maddow
I think, in general, the sports I've enjoyed covering the most have been the offbeat ones. The more popular, mainstream, the less I like them because they're more, they're more structured and the players don't have much interesting to say because they're interviewed all the time. — Mitch Albom
Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. That is why it is so important that the FIFA World Cup will, for the first time ever, be hosted on the African continent in 2010. We feel privileged and humbled that South Africa has been given this singular honour of being the African host country. — Nelson Mandela
Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians. — Nick Goepper
I wasn't a huge fan of the comic book, but I definitely was of the cartoon series. I wasn't much for sitting around and reading as a kid, I preferred to be outside running around and playing sports, but I was absolutely thrilled to get the role of Colossus. I don't think I realised how popular the character was until I got the role and started doing some research; it was then that I really fell in love with the character of Colossus myself. — Daniel Cudmore
Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity. — Will McDonough
At the end of the day I'm not racing for recognition, I'm not racing for popularity, that's not who I am. I'm focused on the result and trying to get the best out of myself from a sporting capacity. That's what really motivates me. — Chris Froome
I think it's important to remember how quickly sports popularity can change. — Kelefa Sanneh
We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde. — Pat Buchanan
I was not one of the popular kids, I was not great at sports, girls didn't pay attention to me.I was just pretty much an average kid, no stand-out abilities, nothing note-worthy. — Jeff Dunham
It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world. — Claudio Reyna
I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball. — Garry Kasparov
Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's fun to watch. — David Lauren
Bill Walton, UH Volleyball coach, after his player kept looking at him on the bench every time the ball hit the floor...Next time you look at me I'll put you on the bench where you can see me better. My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they are popular. You make them because they are right. — Theodore Hesburgh
I am trying to encourage kids to do something that isn’t yet on their mind because it is not in popular culture. Popular culture tells you 'music, music, sports, sports.' It neglects the importance of a STEM education. — will.i.am
During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those days are over. This is the day of conservatism. — Yvon Chouinard
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our race's most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must-never for sport. — Robert A. Heinlein
In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed. — Marvin Hagler
It's so much fun! Girls just think that it is all about popularity, but it's not. You have to work really hard if you want to be good at cheerleading. It's just like any other sport! — Stephanie
Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well. — Henrietta Onodi
He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world — J. K. Rowling
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