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Quotes About Sport

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.
~ Emma Watson
Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses.
~ Thaddeus Norris
As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
~ Katarina Witt
When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics.
~ Jonathan Horton
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.
~ Muhammad Ali
I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport.
~ Tim Robbins
Coach may have been the greatest innovator the sport has ever had.
~ Ken Morrow
It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.
~ Lance Armstrong
"You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress."
~ Robin Roberts
The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.
~ Mark Cuban
I love the history of the sport, I love the culture that surrounds it, and I never dreamed I'd become a fanatic. I'm such a fanatic now that I'm committed to competing.
~ Tim Gunn
I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.
~ Muhammad Ali
Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.
~ Nelson Mandela
I met a guy yesterday, 7 feet tall. Yeah, handsome, great big guy, 7 feet tall! ... I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.
~ Mitt Romney
Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.
~ Troy Polamalu
I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.
~ Mick Jagger
I believe it is no secret that I like Japan very much - Japanese culture, sport, including judo, but it will not offend anyone if I say that I like Russia even more.
~ Vladimir Putin
There is no sport in hate where all the rage Is on one side.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.
~ Phillip Adams
My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life
~ Peggy Fleming
In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason?
~ R. S. Thomas
A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
~ Rahul Dravid
I try to focus and compete and do positive things for the sport.
~ Usain Bolt