Article - Miscellaneous Sport Quotes by Wen Zientek-Sico Looking for a great quote to use on a gift for your favorite sports fan? Add any of these great quotes to a plaque, hanging, T-shirt, or other craft project that your favorite fan will love. Here are our favorite general sport quotes.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

~ Muhammad Ali

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe orAndromaque.

~ Roland Barthes

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.

~ Don Carter, pro bowler

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

~ Peggy Fleming

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

~ Sir Edmund Hillary

The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself.

~ Goran Ivanisevic

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

~ Magic Johnson

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

~ Eric Lindros

Sports should always be fun.

~ Charles Mann

You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

~ Joe Namath

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.

~ Dick Vertleib (on Basketball)

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

~ John Wooden