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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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There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of their brawl all beat up and battered, obviously both fighters gave all they had to win, and Apollo Creed says to Rocky - "Your not getting a rematch" and Rocky says "I don't want one".

I love that scene.
That's when you know that you left no doubt - that your opponent, win or lose, never wants to compete against you ever again.

That's fighting.
- John A. Passaro
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just as a stool requires three legs to stand upright so the taekwondoist must cultivate basic skills, meaningful forms, and effective sparring in order to have both feet firmly planted in the art
- Doug Cook
Taekwondo: A Path to Excellence
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Football is the poetry of a motion.
- Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake
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You see, sex for Jews is not such a terrible sin. It's just one more physical sport we're gonna stink at.
- Jaffe Cohen
The King of Kings and I: The Greatest Story Ever Kvetched!
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I don't let birdies and pars get in the way of having a good time
- Angelo Spagnolo
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In my opinion any activity during which you can enjoy a beverage is not a sport. It is a party.
- Michael Thomas Ford
Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me & Other Trials from My Queer Life
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Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
- Lou Holtz
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It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
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[Lizzie Bennington to a reporter who has asked for her opinion about Jack Archer's celebrated thighs.] “When you come back from a set down and bring the match to a final set tiebreak and are a point away from winning the match, only to have what looks like an extremely fit player call a time out because of a cramp and then watch that player sit back and casually converse and laugh while you do your best to keep your mental focus and your body moving so you don’t grow cold and cramp yourself, I hardly think you’d concern yourself with his burgeoning manhood, let alone his thighs!
- A.G. Starling
It's a Love Game
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He was working that charm right now on the trainer who kneeled before him and touched his thigh as though it were the thigh of David, Michelangelo’s glorious statue come to life right here on court.
- A.G. Starling
It's a Love Game
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While sports are indisputably a positive source of strength and self-development for girls, they can accomplish this only if the environment in which female athletes throw their javelins, kick their soccer balls, and swim their fast and furious laps is an environment that respects girls and takes them seriously as athletes.
- Leslie Heywood
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You will sweat; it's uncomfortable. You won't feel it's enough, but it'll be something. Lean your body and let your head rest against the wall. Listen to the screech of the violin electrifying your skin. And let the ball start rolling.
- Hansel Hersch
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With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.
- Criss Jami
Venus in Arms
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I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
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Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
- Kobe Bryant
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Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.
- Dean Karnazes
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
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Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.
- Jessica Park
Flat-Out Love
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The strong one doesn't win, the one that wins is strong.
- Franz beckenbauer
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All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
- Gordie Howe
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if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!
- Tiger Woods
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If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
- Mia Hamm
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He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then you told the guy that story.
- Chad Harbach
The Art of Fielding
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...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.
- Chuck Klosterman
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
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The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked out there, you could just go. You could flow, that was it: you created and you didn't totally know how. You just knew you could, so you did. It wasn't thinking and it wasn't imitating somebody else's moves, though you always looked carefully when you watched good players play. But when you played... it was something you couldn't explain. Neal used to know. It didn't come from thinking about it.
- Doug Wilhelm
Falling
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There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of their brawl all beat up and battered, obviously both fighters gave all they had to win, and Apollo Creed says to Rocky - "Your not getting a rematch" and Rocky says "I don't want one".

I love that scene.
That's when you know that you left no doubt - that your opponent, win or lose, never wants to compete against you ever again.

That's fighting.
- John A. Passaro
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
just as a stool requires three legs to stand upright so the taekwondoist must cultivate basic skills, meaningful forms, and effective sparring in order to have both feet firmly planted in the art
- Doug Cook
Taekwondo: A Path to Excellence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Football is the poetry of a motion.
- Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You see, sex for Jews is not such a terrible sin. It's just one more physical sport we're gonna stink at.
- Jaffe Cohen
The King of Kings and I: The Greatest Story Ever Kvetched!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't let birdies and pars get in the way of having a good time
- Angelo Spagnolo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In my opinion any activity during which you can enjoy a beverage is not a sport. It is a party.
- Michael Thomas Ford
Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me & Other Trials from My Queer Life
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Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
- Lou Holtz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[Lizzie Bennington to a reporter who has asked for her opinion about Jack Archer's celebrated thighs.] “When you come back from a set down and bring the match to a final set tiebreak and are a point away from winning the match, only to have what looks like an extremely fit player call a time out because of a cramp and then watch that player sit back and casually converse and laugh while you do your best to keep your mental focus and your body moving so you don’t grow cold and cramp yourself, I hardly think you’d concern yourself with his burgeoning manhood, let alone his thighs!
- A.G. Starling
It's a Love Game
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was working that charm right now on the trainer who kneeled before him and touched his thigh as though it were the thigh of David, Michelangelo’s glorious statue come to life right here on court.
- A.G. Starling
It's a Love Game
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
While sports are indisputably a positive source of strength and self-development for girls, they can accomplish this only if the environment in which female athletes throw their javelins, kick their soccer balls, and swim their fast and furious laps is an environment that respects girls and takes them seriously as athletes.
- Leslie Heywood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You will sweat; it's uncomfortable. You won't feel it's enough, but it'll be something. Lean your body and let your head rest against the wall. Listen to the screech of the violin electrifying your skin. And let the ball start rolling.
- Hansel Hersch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.
- Criss Jami
Venus in Arms
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
- Kobe Bryant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.
- Dean Karnazes
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.
- Jessica Park
Flat-Out Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The strong one doesn't win, the one that wins is strong.
- Franz beckenbauer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
- Gordie Howe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!
- Tiger Woods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
- Mia Hamm
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then you told the guy that story.
- Chad Harbach
The Art of Fielding
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.
- Chuck Klosterman
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked out there, you could just go. You could flow, that was it: you created and you didn't totally know how. You just knew you could, so you did. It wasn't thinking and it wasn't imitating somebody else's moves, though you always looked carefully when you watched good players play. But when you played... it was something you couldn't explain. Neal used to know. It didn't come from thinking about it.
- Doug Wilhelm
Falling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of their brawl all beat up and battered, obviously both fighters gave all they had to win, and Apollo Creed says to Rocky - "Your not getting a rematch" and Rocky says "I don't want one".

I love that scene.
That's when you know that you left no doubt - that your opponent, win or lose, never wants to compete against you ever again.

That's fighting.
- John A. Passaro
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
just as a stool requires three legs to stand upright so the taekwondoist must cultivate basic skills, meaningful forms, and effective sparring in order to have both feet firmly planted in the art
- Doug Cook
Taekwondo: A Path to Excellence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Football is the poetry of a motion.
- Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You see, sex for Jews is not such a terrible sin. It's just one more physical sport we're gonna stink at.
- Jaffe Cohen
The King of Kings and I: The Greatest Story Ever Kvetched!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't let birdies and pars get in the way of having a good time
- Angelo Spagnolo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In my opinion any activity during which you can enjoy a beverage is not a sport. It is a party.
- Michael Thomas Ford
Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me & Other Trials from My Queer Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
- Lou Holtz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[Lizzie Bennington to a reporter who has asked for her opinion about Jack Archer's celebrated thighs.] “When you come back from a set down and bring the match to a final set tiebreak and are a point away from winning the match, only to have what looks like an extremely fit player call a time out because of a cramp and then watch that player sit back and casually converse and laugh while you do your best to keep your mental focus and your body moving so you don’t grow cold and cramp yourself, I hardly think you’d concern yourself with his burgeoning manhood, let alone his thighs!
- A.G. Starling
It's a Love Game
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was working that charm right now on the trainer who kneeled before him and touched his thigh as though it were the thigh of David, Michelangelo’s glorious statue come to life right here on court.
- A.G. Starling
It's a Love Game
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
While sports are indisputably a positive source of strength and self-development for girls, they can accomplish this only if the environment in which female athletes throw their javelins, kick their soccer balls, and swim their fast and furious laps is an environment that respects girls and takes them seriously as athletes.
- Leslie Heywood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You will sweat; it's uncomfortable. You won't feel it's enough, but it'll be something. Lean your body and let your head rest against the wall. Listen to the screech of the violin electrifying your skin. And let the ball start rolling.
- Hansel Hersch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.
- Criss Jami
Venus in Arms
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
- Kobe Bryant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.
- Dean Karnazes
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.
- Jessica Park
Flat-Out Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The strong one doesn't win, the one that wins is strong.
- Franz beckenbauer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
- Gordie Howe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!
- Tiger Woods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
- Mia Hamm
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then you told the guy that story.
- Chad Harbach
The Art of Fielding
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.
- Chuck Klosterman
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked out there, you could just go. You could flow, that was it: you created and you didn't totally know how. You just knew you could, so you did. It wasn't thinking and it wasn't imitating somebody else's moves, though you always looked carefully when you watched good players play. But when you played... it was something you couldn't explain. Neal used to know. It didn't come from thinking about it.
- Doug Wilhelm
Falling
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