Sports Quotes

I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it.

Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

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 who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

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.

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.