Sports Quotes

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.

I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it.

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.

Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life... It would be cliche to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

I was certain I was going to do something in sports.

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.

I've always had an interest in sports across the board.

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.