Sports Quotes

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving.

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

I've always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it's like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don't think about anything.

I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.

What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.

We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.