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Quotes About Challenge

Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken
~ Mark Spitz
Rodeoing is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and horses, and they wouldn't understand you.
~ Bill Linderman
Love, you mock us for your sport.
~ Sophocles
Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Every golfer has a little monster in him. It's just that type of sport.
~ Fuzzy Zoeller
Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.
~ James E. Loehr
If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this.
~ Peyton Manning
Base stealing for me is another sport all by itself. It's a game within a game. I'm the mouse and the cats are trying to trap me.
~ Maury Wills
The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
~ Mickey Mantle
You should want to fight the biggest fights you can and so you could maximize your stature in the sport, on the front pages of the newspapers, and your pocket book.
~ Dan Goossen
The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.
~ Mark Cuban
Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.
~ Troy Polamalu
I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself
~ Sugar Ray Leonard
Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.
~ Pete Sampras
Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.
~ Steve Fossett
There have been many frustrating games. I don't there's going to be another one that isn't frustrating. That happens, but that's sport. Otherwise why would there be so much glory in victory.
~ Venus Williams
I'm forever gonna miss the start to the finish, the rush of racing downhill.
~ Picabo Street
You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.
~ Robert Redford
Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
~ Robert Frost
Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.
~ W. P. Kinsella
Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.
~ Shawnee Smith
A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport. Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in.
~ Shia LaBeouf
Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory of life.
~ Stefan Kieszling
Many would argue that alpinism is art, not sport.
~ Steve House