Quotes of: Professional-sports Keyword

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.

Roger Federer

...writing is like dancing, or sports, where the expression of grace come only through movement.

Steven Taylor Goldsberry

Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.

Kevis Hendrickson

The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.

Gabe Newell

We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.

Bryant Gumbel

Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.

Jared Kushner

Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.

John Thune

Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

Nastia Liukin

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.

Dean Smith

I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!

Bikram Choudhury

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

James Anthony Froude

I like playing sport. I'm a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.

Nick D'Aloisio

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

Bill Bradley

The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.

Brian O'Driscoll

The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.

Grant Hill

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

George J. Mitchell

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

Mike Piazza

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

Richard Attias

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

Tom Watson

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.

Jane Grey

As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rather than what's good for individuals.

Kapil Dev