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"If you use all your resources in the first half, you're likely to lose the game in the second half."
"Not everybody's the quarterback, somebody's the left tackle, you need a punter, you need 'em all."
"He's like a glue; you need him in your starting lineup."
"You got to do it every night. You got to be Jordan every night."
"Don't be a Monday Morning Quarterback at halftime; it never works out well."
"Why am I beating myself down like this? Because ultimately, the good moments, just like the NFL, that's what keeps you going."
"It's like a grand slam in the World Series. But honestly, it's better than that."
"Life is a marathon. It's the same thing in sports, the same thing in life."
"It feels more like sports teams and like football than it does like, in general, everyone really likes football as crypto, but because they like Manchester United instead of Man City, they're gonna punch each other in a bar where the bar is Twitter."
"It's like watching Messi in the form of a midfielder."
"Let's pretend like we're 30 points down, let's pretend like we're in the fourth quarter, we've got about 8 minutes on the clock and we're down by 30 because that's exactly how we need to campaign."
"You just ignore the people that go zero twenty, and there are games that looked completely doomed, but somehow we won the game. That's the games you will win by having a good mindset like this."
"It kind of made me realize that you can't just put five really great players together."
"Home runs are rare, let's hit a single, let's get a double."
"What you do in empty gyms can one day fill arenas."
"Football is just an RPG, it's a strategy game played by people who have leveled themselves up physically in real life. Let's go!"
"It's all the more embarrassing that we are having any losses when you remember that every run only goes to moms hard to begin with."
"There's not a man alive that isn't beatable."
"Ronaldo to City will be like van Persie's United."
"You often talk about filmmaking as a team sport. You're a football player."
"Bayern Munich, it's like going to the theater. You sit back and you just watch them attack."
"Life has thrown him a bunch of [ __ ] that's way more intense than reading a defense and identifying a blitz."
"The media are not supposed to have a personal stake in the outcome of the ballgame."
"It's a live ball, we're going to have to do that."
"Vincent Company was to us what Sergio Ramos is to them."
"Greg Popovich is an amazing general and Tim Duncan was an amazing soldier."
"It's like a different sport, you know, to be really attached to a goalkeeper."
"It's like watching a sports game... offense and defense... you play defense and get back on offense."
"It's like golf in the sense that it is easy to describe just put the pellet through the hole yeah but hard to master there's a lot going on and I liked your analogy of Formula One."
"Life is like soccer because my mom signed me up for it and expects me to try my best even though I [__] hate soccer."
"Games are won by folks who are focusing on the playing field, not the ones that are focused on the scoreboard."
"It might be Cowboy season but he's the Ravens, we both know how to choke in the playoffs."
"Third Time’s the Charm... It was like watching LeBron James lead Elmer Fudd around a basketball court, with the dimwitted Royalists fumbling every play while MacGregor ran circles around them, laughing."
"We can't afford any maybes. Leave the maybes to Oasis and Man City. We need a full sale. We can't afford this might work."
"For glory! Make no mistake, this sport is war. Total war."
"Make no mistake, this sport is war. Total war."
"The Overwatch League seemed like landing a spot on a professional sports team."
"It's like world champion caliber talent in the ring; I mean, you gotta be real careful when you go into deep waters like that because you're running to a few big sharks."
"Give this man flowers now. He's carrying pressure. He's the LeBron James of boxing, and he's doing it at a high level every time."
"The excitement of pulling that card was like a walk-off home run."
"It's like watching two sports teams at a championship game. They're neck-and-neck, and you don't care about either of them."
"The beautiful thing about AI: it doesn't need to think about what a football looks like, it just knows."
"In this race, if you're not first, you might as well be last."
"I'm happy, like I just played in the Super Bowl."
"A lot of these L1s that I like to think of it like a money ball."
"We're in the eighth inning of what could be the ninth inning."
"Recruit the best talent like a pro sports team."
"He catches everything, he's another Cooper cup."
"Brazil really starts to barbecue the competition."
"The underdog becomes as strong as the favorite. It's not David versus Goliath, it's David versus David."
"It's the worst team in the league going against the best; Titus is their only hope, but goddamn man, the only thing you get for winning this game is the crystal cup."
"Sometimes you're not gonna get the home run, sometimes you're only gonna get three or four yards, and that's okay."
"Don't you ever count the three boys out, don't you ever wait. Especially we thought, 'Oh man, we just went to go play baseball like Michael Jordan when he came back.' Y'all thought he didn't have it and he came back and won two more rings."
"That should have been Obama's chance to make it three nil."
"Matter fact, I'm Steph Curry when I'm shootin' my shot."
"The Champions could be winning 6 to zero but if there's no Champions left, the game is over."
"This is like if the Tampa Bay Rays were like 'we won'... that's not how we play baseball."
"But I don't thought he was Iverson trying to step over the uh I mean Paul."
"I think people confuse people who do volume with people who don't have home runs. I think people who do volume always have the most home runs."
"I'm never slipping, check out how I'm ripping, rappers just assistin', they like Scottie Pippen, I'm Mike Jordan."
"He's like fucking Jesus out there resurrecting motherfuckers."
"He's giddy like he just won a basketball game or a football championship."
"I almost scored a couple of times. Everybody has a bad game, even Michael Jordan, man."
"It's not who can come out and hit a home run occasionally...it's who can still hang even if it's not their best event."
"Pass that ball like a no look to the people we're supposed to feed anyway."
"Could revisiting a former quarterback's playbook be his key to re-election?" - Lisa Brady
"Halliburton gets out and it's like a wide receiver running a route, waiting to get the pass to then start attacking you."
"Rocket League is so simple, just like basketball is just trying to get a ball to go in a basket, but the depth that is there, it's just so much like a real sport."
"Best pick you over me? I'm gonna do the Tom Brady, thanks so much!"
"We're goaded let's go Michael Jordan the OG GO."
"Having a great team doesn't make you a great player."
"You never know until you try. You miss 100 percent of the shots that you don't take."
"Don't be too ready to condemn much happening, life's a great lesson."
"Your family is your team and this is a team sport."
"I need my head bad like the guy who left Cleveland Ohio and went to South Beach with his talents."
"A player who gives you 8 out of 10 every week but plays 75 percent of your games is better than someone who gives you 10 out of 10 every week but only plays 50 of your games."
"An organized offense is gonna beat a disorganized defense every single day of the year."
"Three games, three draws. These guys are playing like world champions."
"Whether you're throwing down cards or throwing punches, it's all a competition, isn't it?"
"Don't go where the puck is, go where the puck is going to be."
"Theodore, as is, he's making plays, he's making mother freakin' plays baby!"
"This would be the equivalent of the Chicago Bulls firing Michael Jordan after his third Championship."
"I'm calling it, I'm Babe Ruth in it right now."
"Beating them in any circumstance is no easy task."
"Failing is not really failing at all. It's like trying to be a pro athlete... It's like you know again it would be great if you were number one in the world but like people are gonna respect what you did." - Dalton Caldwell
"Your pad or your controller is similar to your tool if you're an athlete."
"Brexit championship balling like I'm Wayne Gretzky."
"You can't roam, can't be built in a day. We've seen that at Manchester United."
"Freight train activated - get out the way or you're getting run over."
"The move is warning track power, you know what I mean, like it looks like it's out of the park but it's just right on the line."
"It's like a gigantic best of five within a bracket."
"You guys are actually kind of starting to remind me of the Patriots."
"No need to be upset and frustrated, just be patient everybody, play where the puck is going to be."
"You miss 100% of the pitches you don't swing at."
"I'm ready to be the machine, putting points on the board."
"He threw everything but the kitchen sink right at Ugas trying to crack the code."
"I sell when I have at least a double or a triple in World Series terms."
"A number nine has a very specific set of skills."
"Newcastle cut through them like a hot knife through butter."
"The way he's able to weave in and out of greatness... that's crazy, man."
"You can't score a goal as a spectator; you have to be on the field."
"You miss 100% of the shots that you do not take."
"He's what makes that team win, he's the engine that makes the car drive."
"It's a championship, bro. What do you mean it's the championship? You gotta get her a nice ring, Mr. Champion. This is the closest women will get to feeling like they're in the NBA Finals."
"We're in the first inning of a nine-inning game."
"When you got the throne, you gotta imagine a [ __ ] like Mayweather right?"
"Relationships are teamwork some of y'all you're a ball hog you're not a team player."
"Bernie is Michael Jordan or LeBron James, Elizabeth Warren is Tracy McGrady."
"They better have a big bruiser to take him out."
"An experienced pilot knows he has to fight this urge to fly to the deck... keep your eye on the ball."
"He treated him like a speed bump right past them bulldozed over him and into the end zone."
"Strength in numbers but they're running out of numbers here."
"He's like Brady, like a fine wine. He's only getting better with age."
"You really have to get the business done in the 90."
"As if he took a couple more shots he was going to drop 50 on somebody like, oh yeah, no I just, I just that loosened up and I'm gonna be [ __ ] MJ."
"I don't play no sports, you know, so when I get off right there who you playing for, sir? No, I don't play no sports, this is mine I own companies."
"You don't bet against Tom Brady and you don't bet against Elon Musk."
"I absolutely believe he has all the tools to be on Leo's level."
"He's like the Beyoncé of basketball, don't do that inside my system, I never loved it."
"He knows what was going on. And to put on that, like, the fighting is not the first resort that anyone should go to, but sometimes, you know, I'm a big boxing fan, sometimes two guys just have problems with each other."
"Champions grind out good results, as expected."
"Speed kills in real life and it doesn't matter if you've got a 95 speed wide receiver that's 70 overall."
"He's his bogey coach. I mean, if trick-or-treaters have turned up to Pep's house wearing a Michael Myers mask, he probably would have laughed."
"Tight ends are the trucks of the NFL, they're hard-working, gritty, tough, can go fast as well, just like the Silverado."
"When you're a great player, sometimes you overestimate your ability and underestimate someone else."
"Life is sports. Just 'cause you're losing at halftime, doesn't mean it's over."
"You are what your record says you are." - Brian Campbell
"His ascension was comparable to Mike Tyson's."
"Sometimes a trade you don't make can be the best trade you make." - Reggie Miller
"Players having their cake and eating it too."
"This is redemption time. This is not over till it's over."
"Skate to where the puck's going to go, not where it is."
"He's so precise... every shot that he make is going to be like the game."
"It's like trading LeBron James for Danny DeVito."
"Quality control is more than just how many flips you can do in a match."
"This team is just clicking on all cylinders."
"It's a game of chess, it's baseball season, we've already seen a new hitter, we've already seen walk-off home runs or walk-off finishes."
"This strategy is looking like an absolute blinder."
"Hands down I mean he's playing like they're trying to revoke his Visa right now."
"I really do this [ __ ] like go look at the [ __ ] stats."
"You've got to go out there not to win on points, impose a missile."
"IT'S LIKE THE NBA -- CATCH-AND-SHOOT TIME. GET IT, AND GET RID OF IT."
"It felt like the better team winning a football game."
"Even loss of game flow control doesn't necessarily have to be fatal."
"We're playing a political game of football and don't know the difference between a first down and a touchdown."
"It really comes down to making strong plays and making the right decisions when it counts the opening scenes of matches like this men."
"Holy [__], that was a home run. And then sometimes you're like, 'Yeah, that wasn't a good idea.'"
"Edward Mendy... Sometimes he's just a cheat code."
"It was just it was great watching the spectacle you know the Fife you got crossed the cool customer and Senna the the explosion."
"I want to empty out the weight class Israel Adesanya style."
"Sean Porter is like a middle linebacker with boxing gloves."
"Liverpool turning into Real Madrid in a lot of respect."
"Expect our duel to end like our baseball game...ironically in both situations Jaden is never getting to third base."
"Life works like that. A missed shot does not mean it was a bad shot."
"This game's gonna humble you, and right now you're going through the humbling process."
"This is the second inning of a nine-inning game, and the fireworks don't really happen in like seventh or eighth inning, you know?"
"Look at you! Ah, look at you! Watch out, we've got Muhammad Ali coming in strong!"
"Doesn't matter though because no one can stop the bus."
"Politics has now become more like sports and less like us as a common group trying to find some future together."
"Just like in baseball, you swing it. If you miss, you don't just give up."
"The Premier League is a marathon, it's not a sprint." - Acknowledging the long-term nature of success.
"Do we ask mechanics how to drive in Formula One?"
"You could just burn people and then make that safe or right pass."
"He's the goat he is he's a goat and it gets messy in the room versus Lionel Messi schemes he's flipping on right now yeah I'm like messy Cause I beat a goat."
"The stakes are high, the spotlight's on, and the Supreme Court's about to take a swing at a legal curveball that could rewrite the rule book."
"You gotta think about this though Beagle let's think about this like you're 23,000 people that's like an arena you think about that that's an arena that's like everybody going to watch a Lakers game or something."
"We’re skating to where that puck is going to be even as we speak."
"It's like trading LeBron James for Danny DeVito. I would take that trade actually."
"Sometimes you hit a foul ball and sometimes it doesn't work."
"I'm ready boys I'm legitimately full-out going straight up Dortmund style."
"It's like the Super Bowl ring, you never dream of having one."
"We need to be able to look where the puck is going."
"I'm telling you, these dudes are swinging for the fences."
"Just look at that difference now... surely an insurmountable lead for Team Macron."
"United and Real Madrid are like Hollywood in the world of football."
"It's sort of like getting to the Super Bowl."
"I think what we're gonna see is something more akin to Liverpool-Tottenham in the Champions League final."
"The suspense they build throughout every play, it's like watching a real sports game."
"Hungry wolves man, these guys are really good players."
"We should be almost level on points... but not throwing the baby out with the bath water."
"That's how you freaking bounce back, that is a Super Bowl caliber bounce back."
"Success leaves Footprints and a lot of times you try to walk in those footsteps you can't walk in Connor's footsteps there will not be another one of these dudes." - Ryan
"Sharks don't lose battles, so this is going to be an easy dub."
"Life is the best educator for that if he only would count our bad days and that would be a sad life so we have a lot of good days as well and that's exactly in football like that."
"AT THE TIME, I THOUGHT I WAS SOARING, JUST HANGING UP THERE LIKE MICHAEL JORDAN."
"The best offense a lot of times, like Shoddy says, is your defense."
"Sports is super helpful, like whoa, what's the point? You're practicing life."
"I feel like a legend, man. Like I'm the guy, like I'm cold trickle junior right here."
"That's like a fighter's dream, you know? If I can go out there and I can just see a blank canvas and I just gonna throw paint everywhere."
"Treat this like you play in the NBA. Go all in."
"Pick and roll, what's the catch? No catch, I'm about winning."
"We are just as essential as the star players because they can't do it all."
"IG are checking all the boxes here, certainly playing like a well-oiled machine."
"Champions, their jewels shine the brightest."
"I would have took his shirt lucky this ain't hockey bro."
"He was a hound and not just in a traditional like oh he gonna guard your best player."
"This is like watching Jordan in his prime, he's goofy but somehow he still manages to be charismatic."
"Fortune favors the brave. England were playing checkers, France were playing chess."
"The most important lesson of history is that it is as unpredictable and non-linear as sport."
"Trump is like the 85 Bears vs. the Jernler softball team."