Sports Quotes

Many people consider darts a sport, with a live audience and very excited fans and competitors who aren't hitting the bull's-eye.

My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar.

Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity.

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players

Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.

The only reason I started swimming was for water safety. Then, once I started falling in love with sports, I got more comfortable with it.

Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on.

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

My favourite sport is cheerleading!

Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

When I was much younger and still competing in gymnastics, I could rarely find inspiration outside of the sport.

I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all.

I'm a very feminine man. I like feminine things. I don't go to strip clubs. I don't drink beer. I don't play sports.

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

Cockfighting has always been my idea of a great sport -- two armed entrées battling to see who'll be dinner.

You can never have enough talent.

I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140.

I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.

There's a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I've been doing it a long time, I'm used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

I love Fidel Castro...I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherfucker is still here.

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away

I am confident of doing well because I am enjoying my sport again.

It's a cliche that filmmaking is a team sport. However, let me say just say it again: filmmaking is a team sport.

He has the players too happy.

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

Nobody's more important than the team.

Never let anyone tell you sports doesn't matter. Never let them tell you it's all about the wins, the losses and the stats. Sports is so much more than that.

Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends.

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.

Team guts always beat individual greatness.

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.

I have had quite a few injuries during my time and if you are not injured in this sport [bodybuilding], you are not doing anything.