Sports Quotes

I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

There will always be someone with a cuter girl, a bigger car, a bigger home, but that does not matter. You measure your own performance by your own potential. That's what makes a successful person.

I loved the adrenalin rush of the skeleton, and would love to do it as a Paralympic sport if they ever bring it into the Games.

I've done sport for a long time.

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

I love boxing, and boxing has always been my favorite sport. I was always into it, and I boxed recreationally all of my life.

I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym and saw what worked for me.

O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

I think we need to be a bit more proactive. Let's not just talk about availability of sports, let's make the facilities more accessible to kids and make them want to come along.

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.

I have given my life to the game and to the sport.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]

In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

I grew up on North American sports teams as well as English soccer clubs.

I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams.

I'm not a sports dude, but I'm interested in the sociological implications of it.

I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.

As hard as you try and create narratives about sports, once the ball is in the air, there's not a damn thing you can do about it, it's just very real.

People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.

The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system.

Some sports teams hate each other in the locker room and that's what makes them great.

Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties.

Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.

But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

When I lose, it doesn't just go to my head; it goes to my heart too. If you're at all in the match, if you love to play and ein, it must go to your heart.

Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.

I don't pay much attention to sports.

I don't believe what I just saw!

Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.

Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

I've always thought basketball was the best sport, although it wasn't the sport I was best at. It was just the most fun to watch.

I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.

What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.

You get the kids today into the sport, and then they can't get to the "next level." I mean, come on, that's a bunch of junk.

Arnold's place in history will be as the man who took golf from being a game for the few to a sport for the masses. He was the catalyst who made that happen.

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.

I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.

I understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how it's even a competition though.