Sports Quotes - Page 3

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances.The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.

We spend 8 hours a day, for 10 months a year, for nearly 17 years sending our kids to school to prepare them for life. In all of that time there is never a course in overcoming adversity, goal setting, sacrifice, perseverance, teammates, or family. I guess that's what wrestling is for.

Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it’s easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.

I wish people had as much enthusiasm about unfucking the planet as they did about sports. Who wins on Sunday is pretty goddamned trivial compared to just about anything else.

Just when you see a kid selling a mascot,If you don't buy it because he winks, Not only that will be considered a "boycott",Xenophobically, it will also be a jinx!

I love that aspect of sports where you can see what kind of work, how much work, an athlete's been doing by how her body is carved.

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

It's because you absolutely love the sport.

His eyes are a hazy swirl ofgray, like a thick mass of clouds gathering before an impending storm

The team that keeps winning is not the most talented but the most hard-working.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan

If you want to be the best, be the best, if you are not the best, pretend you are

Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.

Dancing dismiss distress.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

I see great things in baseball.

An "eye" on the vision is more important than an "I" on the vision.

Emotionally, I was just a mess. But it’s such a long recovery period that you have to come to terms with it. You can’t cry the whole time until you get back on the field.

One group of riders doped, the others alongside them racing clean. You can work out for yourselves which group was fastest.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Where is it written in the Constitution that because a guy played football, he has the automatic right to sit in that booth? How hard is football? If I've spent thirty-five years as a sportswriter, you think I don't know you get six for a touchdown? You think I don't know that? You think I don't know you get three for a field goal? C'mon, c'mon. And I can actually speak English okay, so that would be a difference between me and a guy who spent his whole life playing football. Now, not all of them are like that, but it's that thinking that says, "We have divine right of booth." No, you don't. No you don't.

I want something real. Something that leads to something more than sex.

There is no " i " in team. But there are two in motivation. 

~Have NO fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with YOU, therefore NO harm can befall YOU; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence~

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.