Sports Quotes

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

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

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

Sports life is very short.

You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

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

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

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

Sports is the toy department of human life.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

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.

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.

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

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.

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

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

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.

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

I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.

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

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

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.

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.