Quotes About Sport

As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes

Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

I do, have done and always will believe that I am very capable of performing and thriving at any level of the sport.

I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

I'm still making my decision in the next few days on what path I'm going to take. What really makes me excited now is to continue to give back to the sport.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

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.

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

There's no unemployment insurance if you don't have a job in wrestling. You really have to be committed, to have a love and a passion for the sport, a belief in yourself that you can do it.