5,260 Quotes About Sports

When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

To convert college sports into professional sports would be tantamount to converting it into minor league sports. And we know that in the U.S., minor league sports aren’t very successful either for fan support or for the fan experience.

In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

I can tell you this explicitly, that nobody was looking at this as just a third-place game. There was a lot of pride on the line.

Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed.

I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.