Sports Quotes

I think money in general hurts all sports.

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

I've always been around dudes and sports.

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

I'm a sports guy. Football, God, I flip out.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we all pull together, and it's fun. It's like being on a sports team or something.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.