Sports Quotes

I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.

Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.

I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.

I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.

I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.