Top Sports Quotes

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus...

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.

I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan th...

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will," or "I will not," and mean it?

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

On the road we're somebody else's guests and we play in a way that they'renot going to forget we visited them.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.