Sports Quotes

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

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.

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

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.

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

All sports for all people.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

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.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

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

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

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.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.