Sports Quotes - page 5

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages. (Esther Williams)
Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world. View quote
Esther Williams
In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are. View quote
Althea Gibson
In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best. View quote
Althea Gibson
I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related. View quote
Alyson Stoner
Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity. View quote
Andrew Shue
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease. View quote
Armstrong Williams
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. View quote
Avery Brundage
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people. View quote
Avery Brundage
I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees. View quote
Al Michaels
Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that. (Bo Jackson)
I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media. View quote
Bob Beamon
I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy. View quote
Bob Hayes
I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts. View quote
Booboo Stewart
Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again. View quote
Brandi Chastain
You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement. View quote
Brandi Chastain
I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment. View quote
Brandi Chastain
I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time. View quote
Breaux Greer
Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing. View quote
Bruce Dern
I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page. View quote
Buzz Bissinger
And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time. (Beau Bridges)
I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline. View quote
C. J. Box
Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down. View quote
Chris Hardwick
Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get. View quote
Chris Klein
I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing. View quote
Christopher Atkins