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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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He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off.
- David Peace
The Damned Utd
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Hint And Suggestion : Admonitory grook addressed to youth

The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts;
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust for other sports.
- Piet Hein
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We hear about Tiger Woods as a prodigy at three years old. For every Tiger Woods, there are thousands of kids who never want to touch a golf club again.
- Michael Sokolove
Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports
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It's nice to be pushed, when you're being pushed in the right direction.
- Kent Allen
Game of Edges
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Ik heb altijd gevonden dat lichaamsbeweging niet alleen de sleutel is tot fysieke gezondheid, maar ook tot gemoedsrust. [...] Lichaamsbeweging verdrijft spanning en spanning is de vijand van sereniteit.
- Nelson Mandela
Long Walk to Freedom
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Being strong is not how hard you hit but its as hard you can get hit and keep going that is how winning is done.
- Rocky
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A lost is a lost no matter if you loose by 1 point or 40 points it's still a lost.
- Alcurtis Turner
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And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn't forever. The high eventually melts away and the journey of life begins afresh. The truly remarkable among us visit these highs periodically; winning then becomes a journey, a graph where each point is crucial but is in reality merely part of a larger curve.
- Harsha Bhogle
The Winning Way: Learnings from sport for managers
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Owen Owens Field embodies the name of the team that calls it home. It's Spartan to the core.
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
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The recruiter didn't bother to introduce himself when Alumbaugh extended his hand. Instead, he turned to Aliotti and said: "He's not six-foot-one."

Nice to meet you, too, Alumbaugh thought.
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
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If you put the time and work into getting better therefore that is called practice, anything that you practice you will definitely get better.
- Alcurtis Turner
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Where is it written in the Constitution that because a guy played football, he has the automatic right to sit in that booth? How hard is football? If I've spent thirty-five years as a sportswriter, you think I don't know you get six for a touchdown? You think I don't know that? You think I don't know you get three for a field goal? C'mon, c'mon. And I can actually speak English okay, so that would be a difference between me and a guy who spent his whole life playing football. Now, not all of them are like that, but it's that thinking that says, "We have divine right of booth." No, you don't. No you don't.
- Tony Kornheiser
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The guys who play it [soccer] are kinda dumb. Why don't they just kick the crap out of the guy in front of the net? Then they could score all they want.
- Tite Kubo
Bleach, Volume 17
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Train hard while others don't, so you can win while your opponents wont.
- Andre Bramble
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He had been haunted his whole life by a mild
case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.
Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him.
It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he had
gladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical faculty
housing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a young
boy sprang from his love of museums’ wide open spaces.
- Dan Brown
Angels & Demons
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David Stern might be the smartest executive in the history of professional sports. His obsession with the Vagrant Kings is one of the strangest stories.
- R.E. Graswich
Vagrant Kings
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My limits know me well enough to stay out of my way.
- Ben Mitchell
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I’m frozen in place as his eyes rake over me.
- Collette West
Night Games
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A friend tells a story about taking his ten-year-old son to a Jets game. The game was being played during a driving rain on a freezing cold day, and the Jets lost by twenty points to a team they were supposed to beat. As they headed toward the exits, the boy looked up, with tears in his eyes, and asked, 'Dad, why are we Jets fans?
- Joe Queenan
True Believers: The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans
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Discouraged?


As I was driving home from work one day, I stopped to watch a local Little League baseball game that was being played in a park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on the first-baseline, I asked one of the boys what the score was.

"We’re behind 14 to nothing,” he answered with a smile.

“Really,” I said. “I have to say you don’t look very discouraged.”

“Discouraged?” the boy asked with a puzzled look on his face. “Why should we be discouraged? We haven’t been up to bat yet.
- Jack Canfield
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Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.

The human beauty we're talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings' reconciliation with the fact of having a body.
- David Foster Wallace
Both Flesh and Not: Essays
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Sleepwalking is the perfect exorcise for lazy people
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Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will," or "I will not," and mean it?
- John William Heisman
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Every sport pretends to be literature. . .
- Alistair Cooke
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He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off.
- David Peace
The Damned Utd
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hint And Suggestion : Admonitory grook addressed to youth

The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts;
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust for other sports.
- Piet Hein
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We hear about Tiger Woods as a prodigy at three years old. For every Tiger Woods, there are thousands of kids who never want to touch a golf club again.
- Michael Sokolove
Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's nice to be pushed, when you're being pushed in the right direction.
- Kent Allen
Game of Edges
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ik heb altijd gevonden dat lichaamsbeweging niet alleen de sleutel is tot fysieke gezondheid, maar ook tot gemoedsrust. [...] Lichaamsbeweging verdrijft spanning en spanning is de vijand van sereniteit.
- Nelson Mandela
Long Walk to Freedom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being strong is not how hard you hit but its as hard you can get hit and keep going that is how winning is done.
- Rocky
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A lost is a lost no matter if you loose by 1 point or 40 points it's still a lost.
- Alcurtis Turner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn't forever. The high eventually melts away and the journey of life begins afresh. The truly remarkable among us visit these highs periodically; winning then becomes a journey, a graph where each point is crucial but is in reality merely part of a larger curve.
- Harsha Bhogle
The Winning Way: Learnings from sport for managers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Owen Owens Field embodies the name of the team that calls it home. It's Spartan to the core.
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The recruiter didn't bother to introduce himself when Alumbaugh extended his hand. Instead, he turned to Aliotti and said: "He's not six-foot-one."

Nice to meet you, too, Alumbaugh thought.
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you put the time and work into getting better therefore that is called practice, anything that you practice you will definitely get better.
- Alcurtis Turner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Where is it written in the Constitution that because a guy played football, he has the automatic right to sit in that booth? How hard is football? If I've spent thirty-five years as a sportswriter, you think I don't know you get six for a touchdown? You think I don't know that? You think I don't know you get three for a field goal? C'mon, c'mon. And I can actually speak English okay, so that would be a difference between me and a guy who spent his whole life playing football. Now, not all of them are like that, but it's that thinking that says, "We have divine right of booth." No, you don't. No you don't.
- Tony Kornheiser
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The guys who play it [soccer] are kinda dumb. Why don't they just kick the crap out of the guy in front of the net? Then they could score all they want.
- Tite Kubo
Bleach, Volume 17
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Train hard while others don't, so you can win while your opponents wont.
- Andre Bramble
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He had been haunted his whole life by a mild
case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.
Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him.
It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he had
gladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical faculty
housing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a young
boy sprang from his love of museums’ wide open spaces.
- Dan Brown
Angels & Demons
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
David Stern might be the smartest executive in the history of professional sports. His obsession with the Vagrant Kings is one of the strangest stories.
- R.E. Graswich
Vagrant Kings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My limits know me well enough to stay out of my way.
- Ben Mitchell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I’m frozen in place as his eyes rake over me.
- Collette West
Night Games
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A friend tells a story about taking his ten-year-old son to a Jets game. The game was being played during a driving rain on a freezing cold day, and the Jets lost by twenty points to a team they were supposed to beat. As they headed toward the exits, the boy looked up, with tears in his eyes, and asked, 'Dad, why are we Jets fans?
- Joe Queenan
True Believers: The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Discouraged?


As I was driving home from work one day, I stopped to watch a local Little League baseball game that was being played in a park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on the first-baseline, I asked one of the boys what the score was.

"We’re behind 14 to nothing,” he answered with a smile.

“Really,” I said. “I have to say you don’t look very discouraged.”

“Discouraged?” the boy asked with a puzzled look on his face. “Why should we be discouraged? We haven’t been up to bat yet.
- Jack Canfield
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.

The human beauty we're talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings' reconciliation with the fact of having a body.
- David Foster Wallace
Both Flesh and Not: Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sleepwalking is the perfect exorcise for lazy people
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will," or "I will not," and mean it?
- John William Heisman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every sport pretends to be literature. . .
- Alistair Cooke
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off.
- David Peace
The Damned Utd
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hint And Suggestion : Admonitory grook addressed to youth

The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts;
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust for other sports.
- Piet Hein
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We hear about Tiger Woods as a prodigy at three years old. For every Tiger Woods, there are thousands of kids who never want to touch a golf club again.
- Michael Sokolove
Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's nice to be pushed, when you're being pushed in the right direction.
- Kent Allen
Game of Edges
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ik heb altijd gevonden dat lichaamsbeweging niet alleen de sleutel is tot fysieke gezondheid, maar ook tot gemoedsrust. [...] Lichaamsbeweging verdrijft spanning en spanning is de vijand van sereniteit.
- Nelson Mandela
Long Walk to Freedom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being strong is not how hard you hit but its as hard you can get hit and keep going that is how winning is done.
- Rocky
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A lost is a lost no matter if you loose by 1 point or 40 points it's still a lost.
- Alcurtis Turner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn't forever. The high eventually melts away and the journey of life begins afresh. The truly remarkable among us visit these highs periodically; winning then becomes a journey, a graph where each point is crucial but is in reality merely part of a larger curve.
- Harsha Bhogle
The Winning Way: Learnings from sport for managers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Owen Owens Field embodies the name of the team that calls it home. It's Spartan to the core.
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The recruiter didn't bother to introduce himself when Alumbaugh extended his hand. Instead, he turned to Aliotti and said: "He's not six-foot-one."

Nice to meet you, too, Alumbaugh thought.
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you put the time and work into getting better therefore that is called practice, anything that you practice you will definitely get better.
- Alcurtis Turner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Where is it written in the Constitution that because a guy played football, he has the automatic right to sit in that booth? How hard is football? If I've spent thirty-five years as a sportswriter, you think I don't know you get six for a touchdown? You think I don't know that? You think I don't know you get three for a field goal? C'mon, c'mon. And I can actually speak English okay, so that would be a difference between me and a guy who spent his whole life playing football. Now, not all of them are like that, but it's that thinking that says, "We have divine right of booth." No, you don't. No you don't.
- Tony Kornheiser
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The guys who play it [soccer] are kinda dumb. Why don't they just kick the crap out of the guy in front of the net? Then they could score all they want.
- Tite Kubo
Bleach, Volume 17
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Train hard while others don't, so you can win while your opponents wont.
- Andre Bramble
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He had been haunted his whole life by a mild
case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.
Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him.
It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he had
gladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical faculty
housing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a young
boy sprang from his love of museums’ wide open spaces.
- Dan Brown
Angels & Demons
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
David Stern might be the smartest executive in the history of professional sports. His obsession with the Vagrant Kings is one of the strangest stories.
- R.E. Graswich
Vagrant Kings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My limits know me well enough to stay out of my way.
- Ben Mitchell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I’m frozen in place as his eyes rake over me.
- Collette West
Night Games
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A friend tells a story about taking his ten-year-old son to a Jets game. The game was being played during a driving rain on a freezing cold day, and the Jets lost by twenty points to a team they were supposed to beat. As they headed toward the exits, the boy looked up, with tears in his eyes, and asked, 'Dad, why are we Jets fans?
- Joe Queenan
True Believers: The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Discouraged?


As I was driving home from work one day, I stopped to watch a local Little League baseball game that was being played in a park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on the first-baseline, I asked one of the boys what the score was.

"We’re behind 14 to nothing,” he answered with a smile.

“Really,” I said. “I have to say you don’t look very discouraged.”

“Discouraged?” the boy asked with a puzzled look on his face. “Why should we be discouraged? We haven’t been up to bat yet.
- Jack Canfield
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.

The human beauty we're talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings' reconciliation with the fact of having a body.
- David Foster Wallace
Both Flesh and Not: Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sleepwalking is the perfect exorcise for lazy people
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will," or "I will not," and mean it?
- John William Heisman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every sport pretends to be literature. . .
- Alistair Cooke
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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