Sports Quotes

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

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.

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.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.

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

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

I've always been around dudes and sports.

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.

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

I'm a sports guy. Football, God, I flip out.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

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.

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

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

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.

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.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

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

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened, but we want our jobs back.