Quotes About Sport

When you play a team sport all your life, you need to get out there sometimes and show some individualism in a sport where you play against the nature.

I was runner-up for the Ballon d'Or once and came third on another occasion. Could I have won it? Maybe. But I don't care. Football is a team sport.

Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles.

It's a team sport but every player's ego will kick in at a certain point.

This is the best team sport ever created.

Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.

I'm not a union guy in the sense that I know a lot about how they operate. But I know fighters. They are individual athletes. This is not a team sport. I think it's going to be hard to say, 'Hey, do you mind not fighting on Saturday and walking around the arena with a picket sign instead?' I just don't see it.

Fighting is a very independent thing, and it's not a team sport, and it's not the NFL, you know, because we don't have to look the same.

We've got a great team sport, but we harp on about individuals. It's a bit contradictory.

The reality is this: Fighting isn't a team sport; it's an individual's sport.

I feel like a coach when I'm on the court. I just see basketball as a team sport.

I don't have any concerns fighting a teammate. It's a sport. To me, it doesn't really mean anything.

I just enjoy every day, being with my teammates, going out to perform. I just love competing and I have an extreme passion for the sport.

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?

It's (Politics) rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But it's the only sport for grownups.

Do you remember when we took that tame sport called swords and learned to kill with it, as the old volumes said men once had?

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.

Well, boys, Long Bill said. I guess here's where I quit rangering. It's rare sport, but it ain't quite safe.

Since sport was what he had been brooding

Her research revealed that knitting was a very popular indoor sport and that a loom was on permanent display at the Wool Institute, which also had a few samples of colonial fabric.

Humanity is a spectator sport. God is the spectator.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.