Sports Quotes

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Bobby Unser

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

Bo Jackson

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

Larry Hagman

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Marilyn Monroe

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

Tom Stoppard

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.

Michael Keaton

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

Thierry Henry

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

Phil Jackson

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

Nick Price

I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.

Kellan Lutz

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

Bill Toomey

I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Lewis H. Lapham

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

Billie Jean King

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

John Leonard

Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.

Rachel Stevens

Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'

Laura Hillenbrand

Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.

Andrew Shue

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

Patricia Heaton