Sports Quotes

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.

I Worked in the family auto body shop, lifted weights, and rode a few Victory Sports Indoors.

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

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

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.

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.

We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.