Sports Quotes

Baseball has all the money.

I'm known as a winner now.

Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.

Its an honor to be chosen to represent the best hockey game in the world,... Hockey fans are looking for the most authentic experience and NHL 2K6 delivers it.

The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.

We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it.

Don't like when sports interviewers force answers: Are you dedicating this game to your sick grandmother? What's the guy supposed to say?

What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?

I don't know what he has. A pulled groin. A hip flexor. I don't know. A pulled something. I never pulled anything. You can't pull fat.

I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and everything to sports.

We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.

If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.

Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.

The appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low.

The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

I take pride in the fact that you are able to make some good contributions to the sport at certain times.

We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule.

I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport.

It would be difficult to conceive a finer example of true sport.

I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.

Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

I always separated sports and my personal life.

Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports.

People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.

Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.

I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.

We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law.

I always find sports-related ways to stay in shape.

I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.

I've always wanted to hunt another human being for sport, even though I know his fear will taint the taste of the meat.

I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I wonder why there aren't more, better sports novels.

My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football player on it. It's just a fantastic little book.

We have a good team, and I think we'll have a good season this year.

This year, I feel strong. I'm looking forward to having my best season in the last few years.

I had spent over 10 years in sports, and there's such a natural crossover between entertainment and sports. It's more common to have both of those in your arsenal.

I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.

To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.

If a manager of mine ever said someone was indispensable, I'd fire him.

When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.

We need to get more people watching boxing. I love this sport and anything we can do to help it is great.

The more attention that is drawn to any of the fighters, especially in a positive way, is good for the sport.

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.