Inspirational sports quotes

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Heywood Broun

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.

James E. Rogers

All sports for all people.

Pierre de Coubertin

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

Pierre de Coubertin

And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.

Beau Bridges

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games.

Ernest Hemingway

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

Eva Herzigova

Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.

Mary Lou Retton

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

Branch Rickey

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

Jim Sensenbrenner

For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.

Elle Macpherson

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

Kurt Russell

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Chief Justice Earl Warren

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

Todd Barry

I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.

Herschel Walker

I have two kids. We read stories, go to the zoo, go on walks, play sports, cook dinner. We like to sit around and have a good time.

Casper Van Dien

I think money in general hurts all sports.

Will McDonough

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

Dick Schaap

I wasn't interested in doing a baseball story. My favorite sports movies transcend the sports that they are about.

Dennis Quaid

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

Larry King

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

Dick Schaap

My family are not really sports fans and neither is my boyfriend so I guess I'd never really been exposed to it.

Anna Friel

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.

Will McDonough

Professional sports are something they can't control.

Troy Vincent