Sports Quotes

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.

The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.

I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.

Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.