Sports Quotes

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.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.