Sports Quotes

My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.

Arthur Blank

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

Avery Brundage

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

Adele

No matter how little we think anatomy should matter to one's social and political rights, surely we can't pretend biology doesn't matter in sports. Surely there's a reason we don't let adults play in the t-ball leagues, and a reason most women athlet...

Alice Dreger

If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating - why is it that we don't say to the man, 'Well, you're too feminine to compete?'... I don't understand why we don't find it ...

Alice Dreger

Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.

Alice Dreger

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

Anita Desai

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

Ashton Eaton

I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.

Allyson Felix

I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.

Allyson Felix

I think that kids aren't even exploring the option of sports anymore, and they don't even know what they could do.

Allyson Felix

I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.

Alex Gibney

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

Althea Gibson

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

Andrew Garfield

In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.

Alberto Juantorena

I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport.

Alberto Juantorena

I am as hungry now as I was when I began in the sport. If anything, I am probably a bit hungrier. It is because I know there are fewer tomorrows than yesterdays.

Allen Johnson

My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.

Alan King

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the be...

Al Kaline

I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

Anna Kournikova