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Quotes About Sport

Tennis is a funny game, and it takes a life-time of keeping one's eyes open on the circuit to have any chance of understanding the strange phenomena that exist in our exciting sport!
~ Sania Mirza
I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazing global sport.
~ Sania Mirza
I think I love my sport. I enjoy to play tennis. It's my passion.
~ Stan Wawrinka
Tennis is a very interesting world. It's a sport of opportunities, but it's a sport of challenges as well. And for anybody to continue to progress, they have to understand what those challenges are.
~ Katrina Adams
For players from every age and every ability, the USTA National Campus will raise the bar on how we deliver tennis with the goal of making our great sport more accessible to more people than ever before.
~ Katrina Adams
I think tennis is very different than most of the other sports when you have the opportunity to go pro. For me, it was pretty simple. Tennis was always an individual sport, and your direct results determined where you could go and what you could do.
~ Katrina Adams
I love the sport of tennis, but I sort of got a little bit away from what I really wanted to do. It became robotic for me, and that's not what I wanted. It's such an amazing sport, and I just really wanted to enjoy it, and I lost that enjoyment and that passion.
~ Ashleigh Barty
I played tennis a lot when I had the skull injury. For the first two months of my preparation, it was all I could do. It is a great sport for me because it helps my hand-eye coordination, and you need quick feet, which is a good exercise for a keeper.
~ Petr Cech
I play tennis because I like it.
~ Simona Halep
I still play a bit of tennis, but only a knockabout to help with my recovery after a game.
~ Nikita Parris
Changing public perceptions is important. Nobody bats an eyelid in a team sport when a player gets injured and is still getting paid. In tennis, there is nothing like that.
~ Kevin Anderson
Masculinity comes from your look, all the way down to your attitude. It's a big part of being a tennis player. Even though tennis is a fairly friendly sport, intimidation is still a big part of it.
~ Milos Raonic
Thanks to the football, every time I go out and play, it releases the tension, and you forget about the problems.
~ David Silva
The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.
~ Ian Botham
BMX is still a young sport in Olympic terms. So the sport science behind it is also relatively new. As a program, it's only going to get better as the sport gets bigger and more extreme.
~ Caroline Buchanan
I'm a terrible golfer.
~ Jimmy Kimmel
When I was young, I would go to youth clubs after school, run by my teachers and there were places to go where you could talk things out or enjoy sport with kids from different areas so territorial barriers were broken down.
~ Ashley Walters
That is one of the great things about Test cricket, the ball. Sometimes it swings conventionally, sometimes it doesn't and sometimes it reverses.
~ Alastair Cook
I've been lucky enough to play over 100 Test matches for Australia.
~ Michael Clarke
Shooting is a sport which has got us medals at the highest level in the last five to six years right from 2004. It's a testimony to the talents that we have.
~ Abhinav Bindra
I fear I our good dwarf has lost his taste for adventure. I managed to get word to him, thinking he might come along with me for the sport of it. He sent back a message. All it said was 'Humph!
~ Lloyd Alexander
Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes. When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? This title offends all three major religions, and even vegetarians!
~ George Carlin
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.
~ Juliana Berners