Sports Quotes

I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.

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.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

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

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

I am so grateful to everybody that supports the Sheckler Foundation, and gives us the ability to continue to help kids and injured action sports athletes.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

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.