Quotes of: Individual-sport Keyword

Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls.

Dominique Moceanu

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

Dick Schaap

I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

Ellen Page

If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.

Fran Drescher

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

Frank Shorter

Regardless of the obstacles or hurdles that are ahead of you, regardless of the opponent, regardless of the odds, your goal and objective always is to win. I think that's part of sports.

Grant Hill

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; it's such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

Gordon Taylor

When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

Hannah Kearney

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Hunter S. Thompson

People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.

Iggy Azalea

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.

Jim Finks

I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand.

Judah Friedlander

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

Jane Leavy

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

John Lahr

I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

Jim Sensenbrenner

I did a shoot for 'Sports Illustrated,' and my grandpa called me and asked when my issue of 'Playboy' was coming out. It was hilarious as well as embarrassing.

Jasmine Tookes

I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.

Joe Taslim

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

John Thorn