Sports Quotes

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

Over the years, I've enjoyed working for WFAN and MSG - two sports giants in the industry. There couldn't be a better fit due to the long-standing history both entities have had with NY sports.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

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

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

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.

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

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.

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

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

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

I am so grateful to everybody that supports the Sheckler Foundation, and gives us the ability to continue to help kids and injured action sports athletes.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

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

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.

I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone.

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