Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Matthews

Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him. This nonsense that he only went into politics because his older brother Joe was killed is not true. He was determined he was going to be in politics, but he would have waited his turn.

Chris Froome

In sport you always think the strongest guy should be going for it and getting the best results. The thing is, cycling also has a very important team aspect, which I don't think that a lot of people fully grasp.

Chris Froome

Unfortunately this is the legacy that has been handed to us by the people before us, people who have won the Tour only to disappoint fans a few years later, if this is part of the process we have to go through to get the sport to the better place, obviously I'm here, I'm doing it.

Gilbert Arenas

This sport is just crazy. Your worst enemy in college is your teammate and friend when you get to the NBA. Who would have thought it?

Gilbert Gottfried

The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.

Fran Tarkenton

It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.

Fran Tarkenton

In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

Fran Tarkenton

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Ford Frick

Baseball is probably the world's best documented sport.

Floyd Patterson

I always say that in order to appreciate warm weather, you must experience cold. I wouldn't change one thing - all the embarrassing moments, the defeats, all of everything - through all of this, I have learned me.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

The sport needs the cash cow back.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I’m not in this sport to see how hard I can get hit or to see how many big punches I can take. I am in this game to fight as long as I can. I am trying to dish a lot of punishment.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Floyd Mayweather is bigger than the sport. That's the thing. Because you can go to somebody who don't even know what boxing is and say, "Floyd Mayweather." They'll go, "Oh, I know Floyd Mayweather. I've heard that name."

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I've been in the sport of boxing for a long time, but I haven't been able to bring my 'A-game' totally out. I've beaten fighters with my 'C-Game' and with my 'D-Game,' but I haven't been able to beat anybody with my 'A-Game.'

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

When God wants me to lose, then that's when I'll lose. But until then, I'm going to be at the top of my game and keep working hard anddedicating myself to the sport of boxing and to being the best entertainer that I can be.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Every day as a kid, I went to the boxing gym. I knew boxing before I knew anything else. And I was once told if you show your child how to do something and you constantly push them, then eventually they'll become masters. They'll become a master of their craft. So that's probably what happened with me and the sport of boxing.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

Fran Lebowitz

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.

George Vecsey

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

George Orwell

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

George Mikes

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

Franz Beckenbauer

As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high

Jeff Lindsay

I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.

Jim Courier

I think all of us who kind of live within the sport recognize that Davis Cup certainly could be a little more visible if perhaps there were some adjustments made to it, and it was made a little bit more easy to understand for the fans, if there's a little bit more of a start and finish line.

Jet Li

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

Jessie J

'Just Do It' is exactly what you need to hear when you're in a moment of doubt. When you're struggling, especially with sport... just do it. Stop talking about it, stop complaining about the cellulite, or that you're not able to run fast enough for the bus... just do it.

Jerry West

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.