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Quotes About Sport

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
~ Bob Hope
The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.
~ Alan Lewis
Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream.
~ Jim Dietz
Wrecks are going to happen in this business, that's just a risk of the sport. If you can't keep from worrying about it, then you're in the wrong line of work.
~ Coo Coo Marlin
I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
~ Nate Diaz
I guess bowling is pretty mechanical. It's kind of a natural motion, but you have to stick within those mechanics.
~ Mookie Betts
As much as you love a sport, I don't think love and joy necessarily go hand in hand. I think you can still be in love with the sport but just not happy in it.
~ Katelyn Ohashi
You can tell MMA is a carb sport because it's fast; it's explosive. It's not a fat storage sport.
~ Demetrious Johnson
Sports Direct is on course to become the 'Selfridges of sport' by migrating to a new generation of stores.
~ Mike Ashley
Hollywood does draw some very strange characters, and then the power of Hollywood and what they can do with it becomes like a blood sport to them.
~ Alec Baldwin
What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it's not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It's a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It's a very mental game.
~ Shakira
I didn't want to keep fighting and risking injury to my body when the pay wasn't where I needed it to be. I made a strategic decision to give it up after I fought Tito. I always planned on coming back when the sport was able to right itself and had a brighter future.
~ Frank Shamrock
I think October baseball is a lot of fun to follow, being a biased guy that enjoys the sport from time to time.
~ Pat Connaughton
Parents need to realise that cricket now offers a decent standard of living and earning potential, and not just for international cricketers. They need to stop thinking they are taking a huge gamble with their child's life if they let a child pursue sport as career.
~ Ravichandran Ashwin
Oh man, I am so happy when I get to dribble the ball.
~ Nikola Jokic
As an Olympic athlete, I was at the top of my sport.
~ Eddy Alvarez
To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
~ Gagan Narang
We have to harness the Olympic experience and this inspiration young people have to get into sport.
~ Lynn Davies
I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?
~ Victoria Pendleton
Tennis is not really a traditional Olympic sport.
~ John Isner
What I find about Olympic games is there's so many fantastic stories, and the celebration of sport, and to be involved in that is the honor of our lifetime.
~ Scott Moir
I've always wanted to be an athlete, I loved sport and PE in school and always watched the Olympic Games on TV.
~ Denise Lewis
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.
~ Allyson Felix
As an athlete in my sport, you always want to go to an Olympics.
~ Ali Krieger