Quotes about sports

In sports, the only thing a player can truly control is effort. The same applies to business. The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson or anyone in any position can control is their effort.

Mark Cuban

Business and investing are team sports.

Robert Kiyosaki

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

Julius Erving

I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You’re only as good as your weakest link.

Jon Bon Jovi

I love that aspect of sports where you can see what kind of work, how much work, an athlete’s been doing by how her body is carved.

Diana Nyad

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

Diana Nyad

I live by ‘Go big or go home.’ That’s with everything. It’s like either commit and go for it or don’t do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That’s what I live by. That’s how I like it.

Paul Walker

I think most of my lessons come from sports. That’s why I always emphasise to young kids to get involved in sports because it’s where you learn about discipline. It’s where you learn to keep going, where if you think you can’t make it, you can.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You’ve got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you’re involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.

Paul Allen

Like books, sports give people a sense of having lived other lives, of taking part in other people’s victories. And defeats. When sports are at their best, the spirit of the fan merges with the spirit of the athlete.

Phil Knight