Sports Quotes

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

Every year there's an Oscar and Grammy and we celebrate those shows. We do the same in the U.S about sports schools and colleges. The same thing doesn't happen for tech and STEM.

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.

The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

It's not too far; it just seems like it is.

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

Softball is an easy sport to fall in love because our game is fast paced and action packed.

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

My swag was phenomenal.

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.

I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.

I love to exercise because I grew up always playing sports - almost everyday. It's big part of my identity, a time when I can connect with my body, and block out the rest of the world for a while.

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

I didn't really get into boys until my junior year of high school, when I had my first boyfriend. But for the most part I was always playing sports, so I was too busy for them!

I'm just me - the way I am.

There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics.

Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.

Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.

With goals you can create the future in advance.

I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf

You always catch the wrong players.

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

You measure a player from the head up.

We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.

I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.