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Quotes About Sport

You need to enjoy yourself and just get into the routine of keeping fit and enjoying being active. That's always easier once you've made friends in the sport.
~ Alistair Brownlee
I did my first triathlon when I was 11-years-old and it was just another new sport to try. I got better at it and decided to take it a bit more seriously.
~ Alistair Brownlee
I follow K-1 closely and also train Ray Sefo. My heart is with K-1 and I love the sport of standup kickboxing.
~ Shawn Tompkins
Think street, train sport.
~ Conor McGregor
To be honest, I still don't feel like I'm a representative or an ambassador for the sport.
~ Tony Stewart
I've always been into endurance sport, which I think is more about your mind pushing your body, which is definitely why that Bear Grylls book sung to me.
~ Sam Heughan
Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.
~ Alan Minter
Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.
~ Lord Byron
I believe both the mind and the body need to be strong. We practise so hard that even if we hit a saturation point, we can't stop because that is the kind of dedication the sport requires.
~ Satnam Singh Bhamara
I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.
~ Dave Bautista
An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.
~ John Wooden
What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.
~ Eric Cantona
Boxing is your father's sport.
~ Dana White
The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.
~ Dawn Fraser
A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
~ Yoshiro Mori
The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.
~ Karel Capek
Golf is played with the arms.
~ Sam Snead
Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.
~ Dick Schaap
I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.
~ Dhani Harrison
Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave
~ Durwood Merrill
Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair
~ Nelson Mandela
Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
~ Gail Parent