Quotes About Sport

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

Freediving is by far and away the toughest sport mentally. You are underwater for up to seven minutes, and a lot of thoughts go through your brain, and you need to be completely calm and relaxed. In any other sport, you use increased adrenalin, but in freediving, you have to drop the heart rate down to 20 beats per minute.

I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport.

I believe politics is a team sport. That, for awful and unfortunate reasons beyond any of our control, the American system only allows, effectively, for two teams.

It is unfortunate whenever someone tries to bring politics into sport.

The one thing about professional sport is it's all about results, and at the end of the day, if someone is employing you and you're not scoring runs or you're not taking wickets, they ain't going to carry on doing it, and there's no any other way of saying that; that's unfortunately the ruthless business of professional sport.

I get enthused by good football because I love this sport. I don't care about which jersey the teams are wearing or which sponsor pays them.

I think every athlete wants to get sponsored. If you do really well in your sport, then I think sponsorship can help you get rewarded in that sense: doing what you can for your sponsor. It's just another achievement in life.

For me, football is more than a sport, just look at the impact it has on society.

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

My father and mother are exceptional pedagogues who can motivate and tell it from all different angles. Later, chess for me became a sport, an art, a science, everything together. I was very focused on chess, and happy with that world.

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

I am actively campaigning for 'chest hair' to become an Olympic sport.

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

If the champion can't fight because of an injury, it's not my fault. It happens in this sport. It's normal.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.

Since I was kid, what's drawn me to racing is the feeling inside of me, the passion I have for the sport, the feeling I have while competing and doing what I do in a car, on a bike, whatever it's been.

I love hockey. Hockey is my go-to sport. It's my jam.

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

My favorite sport is baseball; my cousin is pitcher Heath Bell.

In fact cycling has always been 'saved' by judicial investigations and not by the anti-doping controls we put in place. That's the harsh truth. We have relied on them to clean the sport up.

Racism still exists in the sport of boxing.