Sports Quotes

The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.

Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.

I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy.

Nobody roots for Goliath.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.