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Quotes About Sports

In sports and journeys men are knowne. [In sports and journeys men are known.]
~ George Herbert
For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story.
~ Mariah Nelson
Sports are an acceptable way for men to show emotion. A guy who won't hug his kid will slip a guy a tongue in a sports bar when his team wins.
~ Richard Jeni
Of course Seattle loves soccer. You can see from the men's Seattle Sounders team.
~ Hope Solo
My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.
~ Mark Teixeira
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.
~ Jerry West
I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches
~ Sergei Bubka
I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.
~ James Naismith
This would have been a great game to watch if we didn't have any money on it.
~ Norm MacDonald
I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the love of the game of basketball.
~ Michael Jordan
I think money in general hurts all sports.
~ Will McDonough
No Student can stand the Gruel of Sports Training unless she has a Passion for Fame.
~ Vineet Raj Kapoor
On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.
~ Lisa Guerrero
In the morning, I reach for the sports page.
~ Lisa Guerrero
Every successful sports season I had included detailed daily itineraries. We received one in the morning and one before practice, and they set us up to win.
~ Lewis Howes
My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.
~ Rickey Henderson
I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
~ Tom Landry
Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.
~ Steven Gerrard
I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.
~ Darrell Royal
To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent
~ Johan Cruijff
Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too.
~ Lorrie Fair
Most one-run games are lost, not won.
~ Gene Mauch
I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself.
~ William Shatner
Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.
~ Bob Iger