Quotes About Sport

It would be ill-advised to compare war and a sport, but I don't think the brain knows the difference. With post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries in blasts with veterans, we see a very similar and somewhat unique issue with repetitive brain injuries in football.

Food as sport is nothing new. To a vicar, especially, church catering has represented the conduct of war by other means for many years.

You need to know how to enjoy the victories. In the end, this is a great sport, and it's to be enjoyed.

It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.

Canelo is not only the face of boxing, but he is probably pound-for-pound one of the best in the sport. He's one of the most recognized fighters in all our sport. I think a victory over him, a convincing victory, would definitely solidify my spot and it would be inevitable for people to know who Daniel Jacobs is.

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

In every sport, there will be struggle and obstacles, but a victory which comes easily is no victory.

I'm very conscious of Miguel Cotto's career... I need to do my part on that night to have victory and create my own legacy in this sport of boxing.

I think video games are a huge part of our society now. Having kids play baseball video games helps them understand and love the game. It could actually push them to get out there and play the game for real. That's great for the sport.

I enjoy taking part in footballing events that are for social causes because, in my view, inspiring children through sport is a way of keeping their bodies and minds healthy as well as helping nurture their intelligence and ability to relate with others.

My golf career was blessedly short. It lasted all of one class. Hit that tiny ball? Really? I shook my head as I studied the object on the tee. And I'm supposed to put it over where?

Football is not a contact sport, it's a collision sport - dancing is a contact sport.

He's hit it fat.... It will probably be short.... It just hit the front edge of the green.... It's got no chance.... It's rolling toward the cup.... Well I'll be damned!

I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made for us in our backyard.

My dad introduced me to the game, gave me a stick. Since then I've had a passion for it.

I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

Welcome, Vassily said, and smiled. He showed teeth. To Immortal Battles. We don't fight to the death -- we fight beyond death, in the world's most dangerous sport.

She shrugs into a beige sport coat and drops the two spare magazines in its pockets.

Being an athlete in a cold-weather sport is really difficult to deal with the asthma.

I'm an athlete who took the sport to another level. I don't get or ever got the respect from people.

I'm proud of my body, I'm proud of my sport, I'm proud of being a female athlete.

I was a very good athlete: actually professional in the sport of handball.

If the UFC would listen to reason on transgendered athletes, it could help change the sport for the better.

I enjoy wrestling. I enjoy the sport. I get to go against the world's best athletes.