Sport Quotes - page 2

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid. (Irvin S. Cobb)
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? View quote
Dave Barry
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. View quote
William Shakespeare
It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport. View quote
Fridtjof Nansen
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin
Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin
For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin
There is no sport in hate when all the rage is on one side. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport. View quote
Michael Keaton
I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways. View quote
Roland Emmerich
I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport. (Jack Kemp)
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. View quote
Mike Krzyzewski
A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport. View quote
Yoshiro Mori
Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world. View quote
Alexis Arguello
Anybody can be a runner... We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport. View quote
Bill Rodgers
My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'. View quote
Haile Gebrselassie
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win. View quote
Ian Botham
To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport. View quote
Ian Botham
Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us. View quote
Omar Epps
I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day. View quote
Sergei Bubka
I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport. (Sue Wicks)
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. View quote
Will McDonough
I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breathtaking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most. View quote
Ayrton Senna
Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people. View quote
Pelé
If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world. View quote
Pelé