5,260 Quotes About Sports

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

That's what people do, make excuses. Nobody in our locker room is making excuses at all. We're like, 'Yeah, obviously he's not here.' It's on us. It's on us to make a play.

I don't want to leave the sport saying I could have run faster. I just want to be tapped out, like I gave it my all.

I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.

I was very sporty at school, and sport was probably the thing I was best at, but my real passion was for fashion.

The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives.

Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports; few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That's not downplaying anyone's achievements but rather recognizing that there comes a time when simply being there is no longer good enough for the record books.

It is said that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the fortitude to confront fear. And as long as homophobia continues to be an accepted element of the locker room culture and homophobic language a coach’s motivational tool, we can never dismiss the courage it takes for an athlete-on any level-to be openly gay. Bobby Blair may not be a household name, but his journey-from frightened collegiate athlete to empowered advocate-is one that has an important lesson for anyone who believes in the unifying power of sports.

Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.