Quotes About Sport

Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.

Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

The love and war in the previous injunctions are of the nature of sport, where one respects, and learns from the opponent, but never interferes with him, outside the actual game. To seek to dominate or influence another is to seek to deform or destroy him; and he is a necessary part of one's own Universe, that is, of one's self.

Football is not a contact sport. It's a collision sport. Dancing is a good example of a contact sport.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania.

Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.

Fitness plays such an important role in my life, and an integral part of my golf structure, that I think I might be quite good at teaching others the benefits of sport and fitness.

Life is a sport...drink it up.

Fencing is in the body, but it's also in the mind.

What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion?

It's a competitive sport, a competitive nature, we're all professionals.

Somebody needs to cut their profit margin and contribute to making our sport safer.

I grew up in youth programs in Chicago, so they are definitely close to my heart. It is all about helping kids and giving back to a sport that has given me so much.

I don't think we can even compare ourselves to the Japanese or the Chinese players in any way, given their richly-funded programs and their methodical approach to sport.

I love golf, I think it is a great game but I think there are a lot of things that need to change. I think it needs to become more progressive, more inclusive.

There's more to the sport than just fighting, and you either understand that, or you don't. And if you don't, then I promise you the guys that are worth money don't want to fight you, because you don't get it.

It's important to promote tennis in inner city schools so kids in those areas have access to the sport.

If professionalism in golf equals athleticism, then athleticism should be promoted and showcased, and that means allowing the clothes that promote it.

When you help sportspersons achieve their full potential, you propel the sporting quotient of the entire country.

We're in a pressure-filled sport for sure, but anything in an Olympic season is heightened, the highs are higher and the lows are lower, and everything just takes on grander proportions.

It's ridiculous having the pros in an amateur sport, but at the same time, there's a lot of pros who are going to struggle over three rounds.

Ballroom is its own entity, its own sport. And I have the most respect for what the pros do.