Sports Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

277 Sports Quotes
“Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.”
John Wooden Quotes
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.”
Babe Ruth Quotes
“I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.”
Mia Hamm Quotes
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
Michael Jordan Quotes
“Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.”
Arnold Palmer Quotes
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
George Orwell Quotes
“When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.”
Patanjali Quotes
“In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100% dedication, you won't be able to do this.”
Wilson Mizner Quotes
“I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.”
Richard M. Nixon Quotes
“If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.”
Thomas J. Watson Quotes
“We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.”
Vince Lombardi Quotes
“If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.”
Mario Andretti Quotes
“We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.”
Jason Kidd Quotes
“Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.”
Roger Kahn Quotes
“I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.”
Roger Kahn Quotes
“A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.”
Warren Spahn Quotes
“Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.”
Daniel Burrus Quotes
“It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.”
Reggie Crist Quotes
“Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.”
Dorothy Hamill Quotes
“Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.”
Robert M. Hutchins Quotes
“If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.”
Hale Irwin Quotes
“World records are only borrowed.”
Sebastian Coe Quotes
“Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.”
Ronnie Corbett Quotes
“When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.”
Hugo L. Black Quotes
“If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.”
Tommy Bolt Quotes
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