5,260 Quotes About Sports

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.

Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.

Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.

The humility to prepare and the self-confidence to bring it off.

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.

Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.