Sports quotes

The thing is, you're here for one purpose: winning. It's not about you, it's about the team. Whenever they ask you to do something, you do it for the best. You have to do whatever it takes.

Abraham Nunez

To be number one, you have to train like your number two.

Maurice Greene

Running is a lot like life. Only 10 percent of it is exciting. 90 percent of it is slog and drudge.

David Bedford

My brain gets stronger everyday because I exercise it.

Robert Kiyosaki

When I play, I feel like in a theater, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

Anna Kournikova

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Neil Armstrong

It is that smell of burning flesh and rubber that I just love. You can just tell rugby is being played.

Jeff Powell

Physical condition is not the only quality that is important. Also mental training. Mental training doesn't happen over one day or 10 days. It's over 10 years.

Ante Kostelic

Skill and power don't mean anything. You need heart and you need everyone on the team believing that they can win.

Alexei Kovalev

No one man is superior to the game.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

First place is awesome. Number two is ok. Three is tough. Four is the pits. Then there is no number five.

Ann Winblad

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

Alvin Dark

I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.

Olga Korbut

Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious.

Alan Winter

Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

Oscar Wilde

Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.

Richard Sasuly

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

I really like competition. I mean, performing is fun, but I like the thrill of competition.

Anna Hill

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth, certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

Harold Pinter

The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party.

Gordon Strachan

We've lost seven of our last eight matches. The only team that we have beaten is Western Samoa. It's a good job we didn't play the whole of Samoa.

Gareth Davies

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

Jeffrey Bernard

In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete.

Yakov Smirnoff

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Paul Newman

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

Steven Wright

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

George Plimpton

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good you get, you'll never be as good as a wall.

Mitch Hedberg

Think only of two things in athletics, the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other.

Sam Mussabini

A British rowing eight, eight minds with but a single thought, if that.

Max Beerbohm

Mothers keep a photograph of the Munster rugby team on the mantelpiece to keep their kids from going too near the fire.

Jim Neilly

The Irish Rugby Team in my day was all boot, bollock and bite.

Gordon Wood

The entire secret of my success is not to play snooker with a left handed Welsh miner.

Ted Ray

Cycling is not a sport. It is sado masochism on a major level.

David Miller

Rugby League is the best sport in the world. It's got everything, speed and tough ugly men.

Terry O'Connor

And Damon Hill is coming into the pit lane, yes, it's Damon Hill coming into the Williams pit, and Damon Hill in the pit, no, it's Michael Schumacher.

Murray Walker