Sports Quotes

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

I like most everything about my various jobs. The bottom line is I'm really fortunate to get paid to cover sports.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

You're going to have Yahoo! and places that don't have rights being much more aggressive in how sports news is covered.

It's bizarre to me that you can have political commentators, sports commentators, weather commentators, but with medicine, people go, "You can't do that."

He makes it look easy. You wish there was another league he could get called up to.

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be athletes.

Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.

I think the best comparable is Bryant Gumbel's "Real Sports," in the sense that it's quarterly as well. So that's what we're doing, a quarterly special, an hour, three to four stories each hour.

Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

I often think about what I want my sons to fully comprehend in regards to how sport industry unfairly operates.

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole)

I keep getting these extraordinary letters, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.

Know that you are great...so dominate.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

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Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

There's no room to Rhumba in a sports car.

I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.

I feel like every woman, and actually any guy who hasn't played that many sports, you secretly wonder, like, 'Would I be a pro athlete?'

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

I don't give players a chance to hit me.

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.

On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.

Sports and politics don't mix.

I had the drive to pursue speedskating and I found a sport that I was good at. If I'd got into cycling, I would just be another has been.

I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all.

People on the streets are ready for hockey.

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.

I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.

Because of old sports injuries, yoga has become a physical lifesaver.

I hated skiing or any other sport where there was an ambulance waiting at the bottom of the hill.

It is difficult to single out one sport over another, but if I have to name one in my separation suit, it will undoubtedly be football.

I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you wherever you go.

You really don't do anything else in your life; it's a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport.

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.