Sports Quotes

If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape.

I've always been a big thinker that the more international competition that we create through sports the better relationships we'll have with countries.

I'll be back always sounded a little girly to me.

My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.

I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.

I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.

I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.

I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.

I love sport, so I'd love to do more stories if I can that deal with sport maybe. Other characters, actually the real guy is so interesting why would you want to get anyone to play them?

I'll show you just how cruel a sport basketball is.

I've called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It's a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams; a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans.

I like to test myself and see where I am and how I am against other people in this sport. I think that's the real draw for me.

Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.

The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.

Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it right.

I ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me.

We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It's part of the game, it's what I love about it . . . and I'd hate to see it go.

You have to have a lot of motivation, a lot of heart and be able to work hard. You can never be down on yourself because baseball is a sport that will bring you down [at times].

I'm calm and focused and I can't wait for the biggest sport event in the World to begin.

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me play.

The middleweight division is one of the most exciting divisions in the sport. Fighters can punch like heavyweights and have the speed of the lightweights. You have the best of world worlds.

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in.

You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends.

Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us play and see us in action, but they also want to interact with us.

I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.

I have so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people in tennis or football.

You can't compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and bad points to every era of the sport. I'm not really nostalgic about the past.

First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general.

To implement a new sport aside your tradition takes time. You definitely need a strategy for the entire country. You need highly qualified coaches for all regions that work with the same concept.

Every woman I know in the broadcast business worked hard so we can talk about sports, not talk about us talking about sports. Ultimately, that's the goal. When the game starts, it's just a game.

People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change.

Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

The only sport I really get into is snowboarding. Cause that's the only sport where they perform a half pipe just after smoking a full pipe.

I think that money has changed my sport.

A key factor is to do training that is fun.

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.