Quotes on sports

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

Author: Matthew Barney

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.

Author: Dave Barry

I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.

Author: Kylie Bax

I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.

Author: Catherine Bell

I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.

Author: Jessica Biel

My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.

Author: Arthur Blank

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

Author: Ron Blomberg

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

Author: Ian Botham

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

Author: Bill Bradley

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

Author: Ed Bradley

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

Author: Wayne Brady

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

Author: Jack Brickhouse

And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.

Author: Beau Bridges

Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

Author: Eric Bristow

I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.

Author: Garth Brooks

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Author: Heywood Broun

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

Author: Avery Brundage

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

Author: Sergei Bubka

My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.

Author: Sergei Bubka

I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

Author: Sergei Bubka

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

Author: Trishelle Cannatella

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.

Author: Jimmy Cannon

I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.

Author: Vince Carter

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

Author: Randy Castillo

I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.

Author: Josh Charles

Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.

Author: Brandi Chastain

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.

Author: Brandi Chastain

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

Author: Steven Chu

Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

Author: Roy Clark

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

Author: James Collins

As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

Author: Tim Conway

Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.

Author: Jack Cooke

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.

Author: Gerry Cooney

I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.

Author: Kevin Costner

All sports for all people.

Author: Pierre Coubertin

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.

Author: Joan Cusack

For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.

Author: Mike Davidson

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

Author: Gregg Easterbrook

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

Author: Gregg Easterbrook

I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

Author: Zac Efron

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

Author: Todd English

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

Author: Omar Epps

I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.

Author: Julius Erving

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.

Author: Jimmy Fallon

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

Author: Warren Farrell

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

Author: Warren Farrell

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

Author: Suzanne Fields

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

Author: Althea Gibson

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

Author: Althea Gibson

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

Author: Rube Goldberg

I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

Author: Retief Goosen

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

Author: Ronald Graham

In the morning, I reach for the sports page.

Author: Lisa Guerrero

On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.

Author: Lisa Guerrero

I've always been around dudes and sports.

Author: Lisa Guerrero

Sports are not for everyone.

Author: Dante Hall

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

Author: Bob Hayes

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

Author: Patricia Heaton

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

Author: Ben Hecht

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

Author: Eva Herzigova

I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.

Author: Tom Hicks

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

Author: Martina Hingis

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

Author: Robert Huber

I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.

Author: Elizabeth Hurley

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

Author: Jerry Jenkins

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

Author: Marion Jones

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Author: Rosabeth Kanter

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

Author: Steve Kerr

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

Author: Jack Kevorkian

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

Author: Billie King

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

Author: Billie King

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

Author: Billie King

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

Author: Larry King

We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.

Author: Calvin Klein

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

Author: Jurgen Klinsmann

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

Author: Heidi Klum

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

Author: Phil Knight

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.

Author: Herb Kohl

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

Author: Shia LaBeouf

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.

Author: Hedy Lamarr

You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.

Author: Jim Lampley

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

Author: Bernhard Langer

All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

Author: Meyer Lansky

We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.

Author: Jerry Lawler

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

Author: Bill Lee

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Author: George Leonard

Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

Author: Lisa Leslie

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

Author: Michael Lewis

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

Author: Michael Lewis

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

Author: Robert Lifton

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.

Author: Rebecca Lobo

The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.

Author: Greg Louganis

When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

Author: Greg Louganis

When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.

Author: Oren Lyons, Jr.

For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.

Author: Elle Macpherson

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

Author: Demetri Martin

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

Author: Willie Mays

I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.

Author: Brian McBride

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.

Author: Will McDonough

We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.

Author: John McEnroe

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

Author: Tim McGraw

I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.

Author: Jim McKay

It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

Author: Angela Merkel

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

Author: Michael Michele

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

Author: George Mitchell

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

Author: Jay Mohr

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Author: Michel Montaigne

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Author: Michel Montaigne

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

Author: Marion Motley

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

Author: Martina Navratilova

I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.

Author: Judd Nelson

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Author: Richard Nixon

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

Author: Jana Novotna

We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

Author: Bobby Orr

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

Author: Terrell Owens

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

Author: Alan Parsons

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

Author: Martin Perl

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

Author: William Petersen

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

Author: Mike Piazza

Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.

Author: Mary Retton

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

Author: Claudio Reyna

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

Author: Claudio Reyna

EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.

Author: Claudio Reyna

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Author: Samuel Richardson

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

Author: Branch Rickey

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

Author: Chris Rock

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

Author: Dennis Rodman

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

Author: Dennis Rodman

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

Author: J. Rushton

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

Author: Bill Russell

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

Author: Kurt Russell

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

Author: Dick Schaap

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

Author: Dick Schaap

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

Author: Alan Shepard

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

Author: Frank Shorter

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.

Author: Andrew Shue

Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.

Author: Andrew Shue

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

Author: Phil Simms

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Author: Neil Simon

We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.

Author: Louise Slaughter

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

Author: Dean Smith

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.

Author: Mark Spitz

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

Author: Jason Statham

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

Author: Leigh Steinberg