Sports Quotes

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

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.

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.