The 25 Greatest Sports Movie Quotes
Sport is often the protagonist of the movies. It's a metaphor for life and emotions lived untill the end. Sport teaches us to fight and to stay focused on the goal.
In this post we have collected the best movie quotes about sports.
From the movie: Invictus
“Rugby is a very rough game, almost as rough as politics.”
talking to a TV announcer
Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela
From the movie: Remember the Titans
“- Coach Herman Boone: What are you?
- Team: Mobile, agile, hostile!
- Coach Herman Boone: What is pain?
- Team: French bread!
- Coach Herman Boone: What is fatigue?
- Team: Army clothes!”
he is motivating his football team as they do intense physical exercise
Denzel Washington - Coach Herman Boone
From the movie: Miracle
“That look like hockey to you? To me it looks like two monkeys trying to hump a football.”
Kurt Russell - Herb Brooks
From the movie: We Are Marshall
“One day, not today, not tomorrow, not this season, probably not next season either but one day, you and I are gonna wake up and suddenly we're gonna be like every other team in every other sport where winning is everything and nothing else matters.”
Matthew McConaughey - Jack Lengyel
From the movie: Chariots of Fire
“- Harold M. Abrahams: If I can't win, I won't run!
- Sybil Gordon: If you don't run, you can't win.”
Ben Cross - Harold Abrahams
Alice Krige - Sybil Gordon
From the movie: The Replacements
You know, there's a rule in sports, "don't do anything great if you can't handle the congratulations".
Himself - John Madden
From the movie: Battle of the Sexes
“- Bobby Riggs: No offense. You're still a feminist, right?
- Billie Jean King: No, I'm a tennis player who happens to be a woman.”
Steve Carrell - Bobby Riggs
Emma Stone - Billie Jean King
From the movie: Goal! The Dream Begins
“Here we pass the ball, you understand that? We're a unit, not a one-man show. The name on the front of the shirt is more important than the one on the back.”
Marcel Iures - Erik Dornhelm
From the movie: Facing the Giants
“The Bible says that God put us here for Him. To honour Him. Jesus said that the most important thing you can do with your life is to love God with everything you are, to love others and yourself. So if we win every game and we miss that, we've done nothing. Football then means nothing. So I'm here to present you a new team philosophy. I think that football is just one of the tools we use to honor God.”
Alex Kendrick - Grant Taylor
From the movie: Friday Night Lights
“Go on, go on and be perfect.”
Derek Luke - Boobie Miles
From the movie: Concussion
“These men are not machines. We must honor our warriors.”
talking about football players
Will Smith - Dr. Bennet Omalu
From the movie: Stone Cold
“- Candace Pennington: Did you ever box?
- Jesse Stone: Oh, I don't box, I fight.
- Candace Pennington: What's the difference?
- Jesse Stone: Rules.”
Alexis Dziena -
Candace Pennington
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone
From the movie: The Program
“I have never tested positive for performance enhancing drugs.”
repeated line
Ben Foster - Lance Armstrong
From the movie: Friday Night Lights
“- State Trooper: You boys gonna go undefeated?
- Brian Chavez: Yes sir.
- State Trooper: You boys gonna win state?
- Brian Chavez: Yes sir.
- State Trooper: Good.”
Gene Burns - State Trooper
Jay Hernandez - Brian Chavez
From the movie: Eight Men Out
“Everybody's got their own way of letting off steam, Ring. It's what you do on the field that counts.”
Bill Irwin - Eddie Collins
From the movie: Big
“- Josh: I'm much better at video hockey.
- Paul: That's not a sport.
- Josh: It requires hand and eye coordination.
- Paul: It's not a sport if you don't sweat.”
Tom Hanks - Josh
John Heard - Paul
From the movie: Ladybugs
“Black people are best at sports. Are you kidding? How about hockey? And waterpolo? Fencing! Best at sports... hey, badminton! Yachting! Best at sports... Oh, I forgot fox hunting! Best in sports...”
discussing with Julie
Rodney Dangerfield - Chester Lee
From the movie: Miracle
“Pass, shoot, score!”
Chris Koch - Mark Pavelich
From the movie: Johnny Be Good
“The lord wants you to put your foot on their balls and believe in it, because that's what wins football games. Not jumping offsides like a bunch of wimps and faggots.”
Paul Gleason - Wayne Hisler
From the movie: The Dream Team
“- Jack McDermott: You told me you played for the New York Rangers.
- Billy Caufield: Are you saying I didn't?
- Dr. Weitzman: Attacking a referee on the ice doesn't make you a hockey player either.”
Peter Boyle - Jack McDermott
Michael Keaton - Billy Caufield
Dennis Boutsikaris - Dr. Weitzman
From the movie: Invictus
“- Brenda Mazibuko: So, this rugby is a political solution.
- Nelson Mandela: It is a human solution!”
Adjoa Andoh - Brenda Mazibuko
Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela
From the movie: Love & Basketball
“All's fair in love and basketball.”
Omar Epps - Quincy McCall
From the movie: Any Given Sunday
“You're a goddamn quarterback! You know what that means? It's the top spot, kid. It's the guy who takes the fall. It's the guy everybody's looking at first. The leader of a team who will support you when they understand you. Who will break their ribs and their noses and their necks for you, because they believe. 'Cause you make them believe. That's a quarterback.”
Al Pacino - Tony D'Amato
From the movie: Friday Night Lights
“I want you to take a moment, and I want you to look each other in the eyes. I want you to put each other in your hearts forever because forever is about to happen here in just a few minutes.”
half time speech
Billy Bob Thornton - Coach Gary Gaines
From the movie: Hoosiers
“Five players on the floor functioning as one single unit: team, team, team. No one more important that the other.”
to his basketball players
Gene Hackman - Coach Norman Dale
