Quotes about sports

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

Phil Knight

Sports is like rock ‘n’ roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

Phil Knight

There weren’t any sports figures that I idolized because I didn’t really believe in myself back then or think that I could make it here. There were some regular people in my neighborhood that I looked up to growing up but that was it.

Carmelo Anthony

The sports page records people’s accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man’s failures.

Barbara Walters

I wasn’t really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.

Michael Jordan

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

Elon Musk

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose – it teaches you about life.

Billie Jean King

My work ethic is from sports.

Magic Johnson

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He’s not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

Magic Johnson

The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We’re not running the same race. It’s like we’re all doing different sports in fact.

Heath Ledger