Sports Quotes - page 3

Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs. (Mario Cuomo)
Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black... But neither of us could do national advertising because the South wouldn't buy it. That was the social stigma we lived under. View quote
Jesse Owens
Hockey is an art. It requires speed, precision, and strength like other sports, but it also demands an extraordinary intelligence to develop a logical sequence of movements, a technique which is smooth, graceful and in rhythm with the rest of the game. View quote
Jacques Plante
Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature. View quote
Robert Redford
I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928.... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him. View quote
Max Schmeling
England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. ‘Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; ‘Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. View quote
Walter Scott
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin
One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something. View quote
Michael Shannon
One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while. View quote
Mark Spitz
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains. (Martin Seligman)
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. View quote
Novak Djokovic
It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life. View quote
Cindy Crawford
I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches. View quote
Tim Robbins
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to. View quote
William Landay
I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself. View quote
Ferdinand Porsche
We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour. View quote
Phil Knight
Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day. View quote
Phil Knight
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions. View quote
Phil Knight
Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working. View quote
Armand Hammer
Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate. (Helen Fisher)
When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion. View quote
Ice Cube
There is so much hypocrisy in sports. View quote
Dennis Rodman
I'm nothing more than a sports slave. View quote
Dennis Rodman