Sports Quotes

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.

Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism.

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

I am a huge sports fan. I grew up playing sports and I'm a huge [Arkansas] Razorbacks fan, but any sports personally.

Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.

As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.

I always knew I wanted to do it [broadcast]. I was always playing [sports] and I talked a lot too.

Everybody wants to play his natural position and play every day, but in the world of professional sports that's not always possible.

In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.

When we do 'Sports Illustrated,' it starts the night before. You do a St. Tropez tan that night, then baby oil gel, then body color.

Talking about and analyzing sports isn't the same as playing sports.

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.

I love playing sport.

I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.

First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank.

The one that works the hardest comes out on top.

To look like you are a real sports fan, when there is a game on TV just yell, Oh, come on! every now and then at the TV.

I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.

Peter Gammons went on to Sports Illustrated and ESPN, and was on everyone's shortlist of best baseball writers ever.

I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive.

Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.

Running isn't a sport because anyone can do it. Anything we can all do can't be a sport. I can run, you can run. My mother can run, you don't see her on the cover of Sports Illustrated do you?

We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.

Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.

The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.

They aren't the brightest crayons in the box -Max(saving the world and other extreme sports)

I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

When I'm watching sports I can't be bothered.

I've learned that the effort sportsmen and women put in is incredible. Their commitment to their sport is phenomenal. Sometimes as a viewer, as a sports fan, you only see the end result.

I'm not a huge sports fan in general, I don't spend a lot of time watching other people do stuff. I tend to like to go out and do stuff myself.

A lot of players go into a restaurant and ask for a special table. I go and stand in line with the working people. It's very easy to get spoiled playing professional sports.

The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.