Sports Quotes
We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.
I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot, I know I can beat him.
The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.
It's not a case of us against them, it's a matter of melding all people's skills and resources to create a better world for everyone !
We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?
Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.
Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.
I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.
To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.
But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.
Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach.
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.
Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back.
This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.
I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.
I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.
What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.
I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.
When Wayne was traded, I became captain. For me it really wasn't anything - I didn't do anything or I didn't feel I had to do anything different than what I had been doing all along.
I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.
We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.
Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.
Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching
I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.
The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.
People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.
Sports are, and should be, a joy. And it delights me that the joy I felt through the years of broadcasting games was projected onto the audience.
Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.
I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.
Everybody is excited to play so I think who plays with whom is a minor thing at this point.
A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.
We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.
The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.
There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.