Sports Quotes

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.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we all pull together, and it's fun. It's like being on a sports team or something.

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

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

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

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.

I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.

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

He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

I'll let the racket do the talking.

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.

We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.