Sport Quotes

I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights. I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

In the name of all competitors, I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules that govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.

Act like you’ve been there before, especially in the endzone.

Rugby is not a contact sport. Dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why, I succeed.

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

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

The English, not being a spiritual people, invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

Sheldon knows football? I mean Quidditch, sure, but football?

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I'm thinking: 'Where is the intensity?'

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

We were wrong. It was wrong. It shouldn't have happened, but there are some dark forces at work here.

I was trying to introduce myself as America's woman champion, but I said the french word "Champignon," so I introduced myself as a mushroom.

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

It doesnt get easier you just go faster