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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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The heroes of war and the heroes of sport are indistinguishable in militarized societies. War is sold to a gullible public as a noble game... War is not a sport. It is about killing. It is dirty, messy, and deeply demoralizing. The pay is lousy. The working conditions are horrific. And those who come back from war are usually discarded.
- Chris Hedges
The Greatest Evil is War
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Jiu-Jitsu is just an excuse Brazilians came up with to hug people for a few hours a day.
- Rayron Gracie
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Sometimes when things seem to be falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.
- Richards, age 17 "The Lion of Dellwood"
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Tennis is more than a game, it's a way to show love and passion for the sport!
- Jonathan Ryan
Found
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The boys gather around their coach. They're breathing heavy, pupils big and black like drops of ink, a high they'll try and return to the rest of their lives.
- Eli Cranor
Don't Know Tough
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Your fitness lifestyle must be balance spiritual and physical.to be always motivated and inspired.
- Nozipho N.Maphumulo
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What makes a bad coach? They don't study the current live game that is playing to know what to do. They always study previous games. Come with a plan and no matter what. They stick to that plan. They are not checking if the plan will work on the current game or match.
- De philosopher DJ Kyos
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Sexual selection for the human body was not restricted to sexual ornaments. Once the capacity for sports evolved, sexual choice could favor fit bodies over unfit bodies much more directly.
- Geoffrey Miller
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
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When I stepped on the pedal below the sink to flush the toilet, the whole plastic sink unit came away from the wall of the portaloo and – to my absolute horror – my phone plunged down the abyss. It would be fair to say that pushing my arm into the dark unknown of a portaloo in the middle of the night in Bangalore was something of a low point.
- Nicholas Turner
How Not To Run 100 Marathons
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The other issue with Harvs was the way the message was delivered. Like all good coaches, he was trying to be hard and demanding on the players, but the message became garbled - to the point where a player would walk out of a team meeting and ask, ‘What was that all about?
- Matthew Pavlich
Purple Heart
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RUN when you can, WALK if you have to, CRAWL if you must.
JUST NEVER GIVE UP
- Dean Karnazes
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Aggression and passion are needed in studies too. We must bring in our aggression and passion from the sports field to our studies to win.
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A good Athlete may not be a good Coach, likewise, a good Coach may not be a good Athlete
- Dido Stargaze
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Fat fingers dance across
the clattering keyboard
Grinding out meaning
Ennobling the actions
Of real men doing something tangible
for a living
And not sitting on their asses
“analyzing” shit.
Pathetic.
—Baseball Players’ Poems about Sportswriters and Sportswriting
- Bob Odenkirk
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After finishing his breakfast, Charlie decided to clean the kitchen, but wanted to do it entirely with one leg. He laughed his way through the cabinets, inside the sink, on the floor, under the table, and against the walls like a kid who gets a kick out of making things harder for themself. It was none other than the heart of sport, for what was a sport but a project made to be harder for a player? To pass the ball but only with your feet. To have three chances to bat. To play catch with a friend, but without gloves. The fun was to see if you could do it. But when non-athletic hardships come, the adults mysteriously run.
- Karl Kristian Flores
The Goodbye Song
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It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
- Branch Rickey
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We hold more power than anyone told us we could.
- Emma Kress
Dangerous Play
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I wanted what he Diego had. I needed to play on a team like that, to feel the love of the fans. I needed the chance to do something impossible and amazing. To be great.
- Yamile Saied Méndez
Furia
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According to Kensi Gounden, Here are five ways coaches can better meet millennial athletes where they are and help elevate them into better athletes and better people.

1. Give Them Time to Switch Gears
2. Help Them Communicate
3. Follow the 'Commercial Break' Rule
4. Know Their Favorites
5. Admit Your Mistakes
- Kensi Gounden
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Our attention is drawn away from our conversation by shouts from the football team.
"You'd think we'd have invented a magical sport better than that," I observe.
"Just because you want to play Quidditch."
"I never said I wanted to play, just that it would be a good sport to watch if it wasn't fictional."
All the good sports were just that, the figment of someone else's imagination.
- Laura Greenwood
First Time's a Charm
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When athletes go for the glory, they’re really going for God.
- A.D. Aliwat
In Limbo
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THE BOUT HAS ENDED
THE PLAYER HAS NOT

खेल ख़त्म हुआ है, खिलाड़ी नहीं
- Vineet Raj Kapoor
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If handed an actual basketball, I would instantly cry. For me, doing sports was like meeting the Disney characters at Disney World. On TV I loved Mickey Mouse, but when I met the actual real-life Mickey, or rather his impersonator, and he tried to hug me in his warm fuzzy suit, I recoiled in fear.
- Mindy Kaling
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved, winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs. When I was on drugs, I couldn’t even find my bike.
- Willie Nelson
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The heroes of war and the heroes of sport are indistinguishable in militarized societies. War is sold to a gullible public as a noble game... War is not a sport. It is about killing. It is dirty, messy, and deeply demoralizing. The pay is lousy. The working conditions are horrific. And those who come back from war are usually discarded.
- Chris Hedges
The Greatest Evil is War
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Jiu-Jitsu is just an excuse Brazilians came up with to hug people for a few hours a day.
- Rayron Gracie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes when things seem to be falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.
- Richards, age 17 "The Lion of Dellwood"
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Tennis is more than a game, it's a way to show love and passion for the sport!
- Jonathan Ryan
Found
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The boys gather around their coach. They're breathing heavy, pupils big and black like drops of ink, a high they'll try and return to the rest of their lives.
- Eli Cranor
Don't Know Tough
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your fitness lifestyle must be balance spiritual and physical.to be always motivated and inspired.
- Nozipho N.Maphumulo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What makes a bad coach? They don't study the current live game that is playing to know what to do. They always study previous games. Come with a plan and no matter what. They stick to that plan. They are not checking if the plan will work on the current game or match.
- De philosopher DJ Kyos
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sexual selection for the human body was not restricted to sexual ornaments. Once the capacity for sports evolved, sexual choice could favor fit bodies over unfit bodies much more directly.
- Geoffrey Miller
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I stepped on the pedal below the sink to flush the toilet, the whole plastic sink unit came away from the wall of the portaloo and – to my absolute horror – my phone plunged down the abyss. It would be fair to say that pushing my arm into the dark unknown of a portaloo in the middle of the night in Bangalore was something of a low point.
- Nicholas Turner
How Not To Run 100 Marathons
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The other issue with Harvs was the way the message was delivered. Like all good coaches, he was trying to be hard and demanding on the players, but the message became garbled - to the point where a player would walk out of a team meeting and ask, ‘What was that all about?
- Matthew Pavlich
Purple Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
RUN when you can, WALK if you have to, CRAWL if you must.
JUST NEVER GIVE UP
- Dean Karnazes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Aggression and passion are needed in studies too. We must bring in our aggression and passion from the sports field to our studies to win.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A good Athlete may not be a good Coach, likewise, a good Coach may not be a good Athlete
- Dido Stargaze
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fat fingers dance across
the clattering keyboard
Grinding out meaning
Ennobling the actions
Of real men doing something tangible
for a living
And not sitting on their asses
“analyzing” shit.
Pathetic.
—Baseball Players’ Poems about Sportswriters and Sportswriting
- Bob Odenkirk
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
After finishing his breakfast, Charlie decided to clean the kitchen, but wanted to do it entirely with one leg. He laughed his way through the cabinets, inside the sink, on the floor, under the table, and against the walls like a kid who gets a kick out of making things harder for themself. It was none other than the heart of sport, for what was a sport but a project made to be harder for a player? To pass the ball but only with your feet. To have three chances to bat. To play catch with a friend, but without gloves. The fun was to see if you could do it. But when non-athletic hardships come, the adults mysteriously run.
- Karl Kristian Flores
The Goodbye Song
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
- Branch Rickey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We hold more power than anyone told us we could.
- Emma Kress
Dangerous Play
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wanted what he Diego had. I needed to play on a team like that, to feel the love of the fans. I needed the chance to do something impossible and amazing. To be great.
- Yamile Saied Méndez
Furia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
According to Kensi Gounden, Here are five ways coaches can better meet millennial athletes where they are and help elevate them into better athletes and better people.

1. Give Them Time to Switch Gears
2. Help Them Communicate
3. Follow the 'Commercial Break' Rule
4. Know Their Favorites
5. Admit Your Mistakes
- Kensi Gounden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our attention is drawn away from our conversation by shouts from the football team.
"You'd think we'd have invented a magical sport better than that," I observe.
"Just because you want to play Quidditch."
"I never said I wanted to play, just that it would be a good sport to watch if it wasn't fictional."
All the good sports were just that, the figment of someone else's imagination.
- Laura Greenwood
First Time's a Charm
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When athletes go for the glory, they’re really going for God.
- A.D. Aliwat
In Limbo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
THE BOUT HAS ENDED
THE PLAYER HAS NOT

खेल ख़त्म हुआ है, खिलाड़ी नहीं
- Vineet Raj Kapoor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If handed an actual basketball, I would instantly cry. For me, doing sports was like meeting the Disney characters at Disney World. On TV I loved Mickey Mouse, but when I met the actual real-life Mickey, or rather his impersonator, and he tried to hug me in his warm fuzzy suit, I recoiled in fear.
- Mindy Kaling
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved, winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs. When I was on drugs, I couldn’t even find my bike.
- Willie Nelson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The heroes of war and the heroes of sport are indistinguishable in militarized societies. War is sold to a gullible public as a noble game... War is not a sport. It is about killing. It is dirty, messy, and deeply demoralizing. The pay is lousy. The working conditions are horrific. And those who come back from war are usually discarded.
- Chris Hedges
The Greatest Evil is War
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Jiu-Jitsu is just an excuse Brazilians came up with to hug people for a few hours a day.
- Rayron Gracie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes when things seem to be falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.
- Richards, age 17 "The Lion of Dellwood"
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Tennis is more than a game, it's a way to show love and passion for the sport!
- Jonathan Ryan
Found
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The boys gather around their coach. They're breathing heavy, pupils big and black like drops of ink, a high they'll try and return to the rest of their lives.
- Eli Cranor
Don't Know Tough
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your fitness lifestyle must be balance spiritual and physical.to be always motivated and inspired.
- Nozipho N.Maphumulo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What makes a bad coach? They don't study the current live game that is playing to know what to do. They always study previous games. Come with a plan and no matter what. They stick to that plan. They are not checking if the plan will work on the current game or match.
- De philosopher DJ Kyos
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sexual selection for the human body was not restricted to sexual ornaments. Once the capacity for sports evolved, sexual choice could favor fit bodies over unfit bodies much more directly.
- Geoffrey Miller
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I stepped on the pedal below the sink to flush the toilet, the whole plastic sink unit came away from the wall of the portaloo and – to my absolute horror – my phone plunged down the abyss. It would be fair to say that pushing my arm into the dark unknown of a portaloo in the middle of the night in Bangalore was something of a low point.
- Nicholas Turner
How Not To Run 100 Marathons
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The other issue with Harvs was the way the message was delivered. Like all good coaches, he was trying to be hard and demanding on the players, but the message became garbled - to the point where a player would walk out of a team meeting and ask, ‘What was that all about?
- Matthew Pavlich
Purple Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
RUN when you can, WALK if you have to, CRAWL if you must.
JUST NEVER GIVE UP
- Dean Karnazes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Aggression and passion are needed in studies too. We must bring in our aggression and passion from the sports field to our studies to win.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A good Athlete may not be a good Coach, likewise, a good Coach may not be a good Athlete
- Dido Stargaze
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fat fingers dance across
the clattering keyboard
Grinding out meaning
Ennobling the actions
Of real men doing something tangible
for a living
And not sitting on their asses
“analyzing” shit.
Pathetic.
—Baseball Players’ Poems about Sportswriters and Sportswriting
- Bob Odenkirk
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
After finishing his breakfast, Charlie decided to clean the kitchen, but wanted to do it entirely with one leg. He laughed his way through the cabinets, inside the sink, on the floor, under the table, and against the walls like a kid who gets a kick out of making things harder for themself. It was none other than the heart of sport, for what was a sport but a project made to be harder for a player? To pass the ball but only with your feet. To have three chances to bat. To play catch with a friend, but without gloves. The fun was to see if you could do it. But when non-athletic hardships come, the adults mysteriously run.
- Karl Kristian Flores
The Goodbye Song
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
- Branch Rickey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We hold more power than anyone told us we could.
- Emma Kress
Dangerous Play
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wanted what he Diego had. I needed to play on a team like that, to feel the love of the fans. I needed the chance to do something impossible and amazing. To be great.
- Yamile Saied Méndez
Furia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
According to Kensi Gounden, Here are five ways coaches can better meet millennial athletes where they are and help elevate them into better athletes and better people.

1. Give Them Time to Switch Gears
2. Help Them Communicate
3. Follow the 'Commercial Break' Rule
4. Know Their Favorites
5. Admit Your Mistakes
- Kensi Gounden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our attention is drawn away from our conversation by shouts from the football team.
"You'd think we'd have invented a magical sport better than that," I observe.
"Just because you want to play Quidditch."
"I never said I wanted to play, just that it would be a good sport to watch if it wasn't fictional."
All the good sports were just that, the figment of someone else's imagination.
- Laura Greenwood
First Time's a Charm
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When athletes go for the glory, they’re really going for God.
- A.D. Aliwat
In Limbo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
THE BOUT HAS ENDED
THE PLAYER HAS NOT

खेल ख़त्म हुआ है, खिलाड़ी नहीं
- Vineet Raj Kapoor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If handed an actual basketball, I would instantly cry. For me, doing sports was like meeting the Disney characters at Disney World. On TV I loved Mickey Mouse, but when I met the actual real-life Mickey, or rather his impersonator, and he tried to hug me in his warm fuzzy suit, I recoiled in fear.
- Mindy Kaling
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved, winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs. When I was on drugs, I couldn’t even find my bike.
- Willie Nelson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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