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Sports have a unique power to inspire, challenge, and unite people across cultures and generations. The words of athletes, coaches, and thinkers often capture the dedication, resilience, and passion that define competition. The following quotes reflect the spirit of sports and the lessons they teach both on and off the field.    ◀ Back

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Be the hero of your own story.
- Joe Rogan
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Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.
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Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?"

Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten.

Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?"

Any nausea? Headache?"

Yep. And it's standing here talking to me.
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I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.
- Tim Daly
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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
- William Arthur Ward
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In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.
- Eric Liddell
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They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
- Wilt Chamberlain
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I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.
- Harry Crews
Getting Naked with Harry Crews: Interviews
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The waves of changes propel advancement.
- Zoltan Andrejkovics
The Invisible Game: The Mindset of a Winning Team
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I read that Monica Seles got stabbed. And although I have nothing against Monica Seles, I'm glad somebody in sports got stabbed. I like the idea of it; it's good entertainment. If we're lucky, it'll spread through sports. And show business, too! Wouldn't you like to see a guy jump up on stage and stab some famous singer? Especially a real shitty pop singer? Maybe they'll even start stabbing comedians. Fuck it, I'm ready! I never perform without my can of mace. I have a switchblade knife, too. I'll cut your eye out and go right on telling jokes.
- George Carlin
Brain Droppings
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Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.
- H.C. Paye
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When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
- Eric Cantona
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
- Tom Landry
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Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources.
- Thomas C. Foster
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
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He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.
- Collette West
Night Games
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Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very calm, very serene, just as always, and it seemed to last a tiny forever, just like that, a snapshot of them all on the curved parabola of a starting line, eight giant hearts attached to eight pairs of bellows-like lungs mounted on eight pairs of supercharged stilts. They were poised on the edge of some howling vortex they had run 10,000 miles to get to. Now they had to run one more
- John L. Parker Jr.
Once a Runner
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i could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages
- Megan Boyle
selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee
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I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
- Leo Durocher
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The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge.
- Dana Reinhardt
How to Build a House
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What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was nothing I could do about it,' the statement is not only true but exhaustively descriptive of the entire acceptance process she went through?
- David Foster Wallace
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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Sure, there is an undeniable pleasure in rooting for a winning team and in being able to look down on opposing fans with equal measures of superiority and disdain. But that's also the Ruthian drawback in rooting for the Yankees (along with high ticket prices, overpriced concessions and crude neighbors). The true pleasure in sports comes not from simply winning but from watching a team overcome adversity to win in the end. The joy of sports is never the final destination, it's the journey. It's experiencing the highs and lows, and appreciating those highs all the more because of the awful lows.
- Jim Caple (The Devil Wears Pinstripes)
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Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
- Doug Collins
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Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn’t come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.
- Kirk Mango
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.
- Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt
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Be the hero of your own story.
- Joe Rogan
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Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?"

Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten.

Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?"

Any nausea? Headache?"

Yep. And it's standing here talking to me.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.
- Tim Daly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
- William Arthur Ward
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.
- Eric Liddell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
- Wilt Chamberlain
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I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.
- Harry Crews
Getting Naked with Harry Crews: Interviews
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The waves of changes propel advancement.
- Zoltan Andrejkovics
The Invisible Game: The Mindset of a Winning Team
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I read that Monica Seles got stabbed. And although I have nothing against Monica Seles, I'm glad somebody in sports got stabbed. I like the idea of it; it's good entertainment. If we're lucky, it'll spread through sports. And show business, too! Wouldn't you like to see a guy jump up on stage and stab some famous singer? Especially a real shitty pop singer? Maybe they'll even start stabbing comedians. Fuck it, I'm ready! I never perform without my can of mace. I have a switchblade knife, too. I'll cut your eye out and go right on telling jokes.
- George Carlin
Brain Droppings
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Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.
- H.C. Paye
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When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
- Eric Cantona
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
- Tom Landry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources.
- Thomas C. Foster
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.
- Collette West
Night Games
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Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very calm, very serene, just as always, and it seemed to last a tiny forever, just like that, a snapshot of them all on the curved parabola of a starting line, eight giant hearts attached to eight pairs of bellows-like lungs mounted on eight pairs of supercharged stilts. They were poised on the edge of some howling vortex they had run 10,000 miles to get to. Now they had to run one more
- John L. Parker Jr.
Once a Runner
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i could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages
- Megan Boyle
selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee
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I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
- Leo Durocher
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge.
- Dana Reinhardt
How to Build a House
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was nothing I could do about it,' the statement is not only true but exhaustively descriptive of the entire acceptance process she went through?
- David Foster Wallace
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sure, there is an undeniable pleasure in rooting for a winning team and in being able to look down on opposing fans with equal measures of superiority and disdain. But that's also the Ruthian drawback in rooting for the Yankees (along with high ticket prices, overpriced concessions and crude neighbors). The true pleasure in sports comes not from simply winning but from watching a team overcome adversity to win in the end. The joy of sports is never the final destination, it's the journey. It's experiencing the highs and lows, and appreciating those highs all the more because of the awful lows.
- Jim Caple (The Devil Wears Pinstripes)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
- Doug Collins
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn’t come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.
- Kirk Mango
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.
- Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt
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Be the hero of your own story.
- Joe Rogan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?"

Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten.

Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?"

Any nausea? Headache?"

Yep. And it's standing here talking to me.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.
- Tim Daly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
- William Arthur Ward
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.
- Eric Liddell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
- Wilt Chamberlain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.
- Harry Crews
Getting Naked with Harry Crews: Interviews
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The waves of changes propel advancement.
- Zoltan Andrejkovics
The Invisible Game: The Mindset of a Winning Team
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I read that Monica Seles got stabbed. And although I have nothing against Monica Seles, I'm glad somebody in sports got stabbed. I like the idea of it; it's good entertainment. If we're lucky, it'll spread through sports. And show business, too! Wouldn't you like to see a guy jump up on stage and stab some famous singer? Especially a real shitty pop singer? Maybe they'll even start stabbing comedians. Fuck it, I'm ready! I never perform without my can of mace. I have a switchblade knife, too. I'll cut your eye out and go right on telling jokes.
- George Carlin
Brain Droppings
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Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.
- H.C. Paye
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
- Eric Cantona
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
- Tom Landry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources.
- Thomas C. Foster
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.
- Collette West
Night Games
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very calm, very serene, just as always, and it seemed to last a tiny forever, just like that, a snapshot of them all on the curved parabola of a starting line, eight giant hearts attached to eight pairs of bellows-like lungs mounted on eight pairs of supercharged stilts. They were poised on the edge of some howling vortex they had run 10,000 miles to get to. Now they had to run one more
- John L. Parker Jr.
Once a Runner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
i could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages
- Megan Boyle
selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
- Leo Durocher
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge.
- Dana Reinhardt
How to Build a House
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was nothing I could do about it,' the statement is not only true but exhaustively descriptive of the entire acceptance process she went through?
- David Foster Wallace
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sure, there is an undeniable pleasure in rooting for a winning team and in being able to look down on opposing fans with equal measures of superiority and disdain. But that's also the Ruthian drawback in rooting for the Yankees (along with high ticket prices, overpriced concessions and crude neighbors). The true pleasure in sports comes not from simply winning but from watching a team overcome adversity to win in the end. The joy of sports is never the final destination, it's the journey. It's experiencing the highs and lows, and appreciating those highs all the more because of the awful lows.
- Jim Caple (The Devil Wears Pinstripes)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
- Doug Collins
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn’t come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.
- Kirk Mango
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.
- Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt
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