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.

Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.

The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really... I don't want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.' And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports.

I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

I think that every single person should play sports.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.