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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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Mistakes made me matchless.
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Something that you love so much you would be willing to die for it.
- Alcurtis Turner
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She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.
- Simone Elkeles
Wild Cards
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It’s said that sport is the civilised society’s substitute for war, and also that the games we play as children are designed to prepare us for the realities of adult life. Certainly it’s true that my brother thrived in the capitalist kindergarten of the Monopoly board, developing a set of ruthless strategies whose success is reflected in his bank balance even to this day. I, on the other hand, can still be undone by the kind of ridiculous sentimentality that would see me sacrifice anything, anything, in order to have the three matching red-headed cards of Fleet Street, Trafalgar Square and The Strand sitting tidily together on my side of the board.
- Danielle Wood
Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls
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Nobody will outwork, out-train or out-will me !
- Andre Bramble
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People usually live up to their expectations. The kid picked first for dodgeball feels a duty to be the best, and to perform the best, and to be better than anyone else. They feel a need to execute. And, the only way they are going to achieve that is to make their body run faster, jump higher, and move quicker.

If more fat kids were chosen first for activities and sports and group/team dynamics, they would automatically start to change their lives to fit into the expectations that surround those moments. Any time a child is picked last, they know it’s because people expect the least of them, and so they never actually have a need to rise above that.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
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But how a game plan came to be, what a finished plan looked like, I had no idea. I’d heard that all copies were shredded as soon as the game was over.
- Nicholas Dawidoff
Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football
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You know how when you step on court your coach is like "go go go!"? And all throughout you just keep telling yourself to hit harder and harder and keep at it? You know how much you treasure those five-minute timeouts? You know how good you feel at the end of a session? You know how you're glad you're tired? No pills, no shots, just plain energy. I want to work like that. Whether I have to write ten thousand words or send five hundred emails, brainstorm for hours at a time, I want to have that energy. To keep fighting. To know it's all worth it.

Oh, yeah. That's my perfect day.
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
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Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.
- Mariah Burton Nelson
We Are All Athletes
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Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.
- Michael Lewis
Moneyball
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In Gym, the kids on my team learned not to pass me the ball and to step quickly in front of me if the other team tried to take advantage of my weakness. I happily stayed out of their way.
- Stephenie Meyer
Twilight
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I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.
- David Millar
Racing Through the Dark
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Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
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Let us keep the rivalry in sports, but not hate each other in life.
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I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
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I like criticism. It makes you strong.
- LeBron James
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Your love makes me strong. Your hate makes me unstoppable.
- Cristiano Ronaldo
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense, so rare, and so fleeting that we associate their experience with experience otherwise described as religious or we say the sports experience must be the tattered remnant of an experience which was once described, when first felt, as religious.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.
- Hank Aaron
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Look. Shit happened. Shit's going to keep happening. You don't need me to tell your life isn't fair. You're here because you know it isn't. Life doesn't care what we want out of it; it's up to us to fight for what we want with everything we've got. Seth wanted us to win. He wanted us to make it past the fourth match. I think we owe it to him to perform. Let's show the world what we've got. Let's make this our year.
- Nora Sakavic
The Raven King
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
- Ambrose Bierce
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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Everything you need is already inside.
- William J. Bowerman
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Mistakes made me matchless.
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Something that you love so much you would be willing to die for it.
- Alcurtis Turner
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She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.
- Simone Elkeles
Wild Cards
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It’s said that sport is the civilised society’s substitute for war, and also that the games we play as children are designed to prepare us for the realities of adult life. Certainly it’s true that my brother thrived in the capitalist kindergarten of the Monopoly board, developing a set of ruthless strategies whose success is reflected in his bank balance even to this day. I, on the other hand, can still be undone by the kind of ridiculous sentimentality that would see me sacrifice anything, anything, in order to have the three matching red-headed cards of Fleet Street, Trafalgar Square and The Strand sitting tidily together on my side of the board.
- Danielle Wood
Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls
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Nobody will outwork, out-train or out-will me !
- Andre Bramble
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People usually live up to their expectations. The kid picked first for dodgeball feels a duty to be the best, and to perform the best, and to be better than anyone else. They feel a need to execute. And, the only way they are going to achieve that is to make their body run faster, jump higher, and move quicker.

If more fat kids were chosen first for activities and sports and group/team dynamics, they would automatically start to change their lives to fit into the expectations that surround those moments. Any time a child is picked last, they know it’s because people expect the least of them, and so they never actually have a need to rise above that.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
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But how a game plan came to be, what a finished plan looked like, I had no idea. I’d heard that all copies were shredded as soon as the game was over.
- Nicholas Dawidoff
Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football
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You know how when you step on court your coach is like "go go go!"? And all throughout you just keep telling yourself to hit harder and harder and keep at it? You know how much you treasure those five-minute timeouts? You know how good you feel at the end of a session? You know how you're glad you're tired? No pills, no shots, just plain energy. I want to work like that. Whether I have to write ten thousand words or send five hundred emails, brainstorm for hours at a time, I want to have that energy. To keep fighting. To know it's all worth it.

Oh, yeah. That's my perfect day.
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.
- Mariah Burton Nelson
We Are All Athletes
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Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.
- Michael Lewis
Moneyball
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In Gym, the kids on my team learned not to pass me the ball and to step quickly in front of me if the other team tried to take advantage of my weakness. I happily stayed out of their way.
- Stephenie Meyer
Twilight
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I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.
- David Millar
Racing Through the Dark
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let us keep the rivalry in sports, but not hate each other in life.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I like criticism. It makes you strong.
- LeBron James
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Your love makes me strong. Your hate makes me unstoppable.
- Cristiano Ronaldo
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense, so rare, and so fleeting that we associate their experience with experience otherwise described as religious or we say the sports experience must be the tattered remnant of an experience which was once described, when first felt, as religious.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.
- Hank Aaron
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Look. Shit happened. Shit's going to keep happening. You don't need me to tell your life isn't fair. You're here because you know it isn't. Life doesn't care what we want out of it; it's up to us to fight for what we want with everything we've got. Seth wanted us to win. He wanted us to make it past the fourth match. I think we owe it to him to perform. Let's show the world what we've got. Let's make this our year.
- Nora Sakavic
The Raven King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
- Ambrose Bierce
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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Everything you need is already inside.
- William J. Bowerman
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Mistakes made me matchless.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Something that you love so much you would be willing to die for it.
- Alcurtis Turner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.
- Simone Elkeles
Wild Cards
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It’s said that sport is the civilised society’s substitute for war, and also that the games we play as children are designed to prepare us for the realities of adult life. Certainly it’s true that my brother thrived in the capitalist kindergarten of the Monopoly board, developing a set of ruthless strategies whose success is reflected in his bank balance even to this day. I, on the other hand, can still be undone by the kind of ridiculous sentimentality that would see me sacrifice anything, anything, in order to have the three matching red-headed cards of Fleet Street, Trafalgar Square and The Strand sitting tidily together on my side of the board.
- Danielle Wood
Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nobody will outwork, out-train or out-will me !
- Andre Bramble
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People usually live up to their expectations. The kid picked first for dodgeball feels a duty to be the best, and to perform the best, and to be better than anyone else. They feel a need to execute. And, the only way they are going to achieve that is to make their body run faster, jump higher, and move quicker.

If more fat kids were chosen first for activities and sports and group/team dynamics, they would automatically start to change their lives to fit into the expectations that surround those moments. Any time a child is picked last, they know it’s because people expect the least of them, and so they never actually have a need to rise above that.
- Dan Pearce
Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But how a game plan came to be, what a finished plan looked like, I had no idea. I’d heard that all copies were shredded as soon as the game was over.
- Nicholas Dawidoff
Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You know how when you step on court your coach is like "go go go!"? And all throughout you just keep telling yourself to hit harder and harder and keep at it? You know how much you treasure those five-minute timeouts? You know how good you feel at the end of a session? You know how you're glad you're tired? No pills, no shots, just plain energy. I want to work like that. Whether I have to write ten thousand words or send five hundred emails, brainstorm for hours at a time, I want to have that energy. To keep fighting. To know it's all worth it.

Oh, yeah. That's my perfect day.
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.
- Mariah Burton Nelson
We Are All Athletes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.
- Michael Lewis
Moneyball
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In Gym, the kids on my team learned not to pass me the ball and to step quickly in front of me if the other team tried to take advantage of my weakness. I happily stayed out of their way.
- Stephenie Meyer
Twilight
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.
- David Millar
Racing Through the Dark
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let us keep the rivalry in sports, but not hate each other in life.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I like criticism. It makes you strong.
- LeBron James
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your love makes me strong. Your hate makes me unstoppable.
- Cristiano Ronaldo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense, so rare, and so fleeting that we associate their experience with experience otherwise described as religious or we say the sports experience must be the tattered remnant of an experience which was once described, when first felt, as religious.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.
- Hank Aaron
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Look. Shit happened. Shit's going to keep happening. You don't need me to tell your life isn't fair. You're here because you know it isn't. Life doesn't care what we want out of it; it's up to us to fight for what we want with everything we've got. Seth wanted us to win. He wanted us to make it past the fourth match. I think we owe it to him to perform. Let's show the world what we've got. Let's make this our year.
- Nora Sakavic
The Raven King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
- Ambrose Bierce
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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Everything you need is already inside.
- William J. Bowerman
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