Sports Quotes

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean.

I'm taking T.O., every day... He gives me the whole football field.

We all want to thank Emmitt for allowing us to enjoy every yard.

I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.

Sports is, somehow, a religion.

Football is the No. 1 sport in America.

I would visualize the best- and worst-case scenarios. Whether I get disqualified or my goggles fill up with water or I lose my goggles or I come in last, I'm ready for anything.

One thing with me, and every goal I've had - in the sport of swimming, my mother didn't know my goals. The only person that knew my goals were my coaches.

I've always been fortunate in that I've been able to put myself in my own zone and relax. It comes naturally. I'm lucky to be that way

I feel like Aaron brings out the best in me

When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.

I think the biggest things I am looking forward to is getting new faces into the sport. Getting kids who could be afraid of water to feel comfortable in the pool.

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'

Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

I know more about sports than I know about any other subject, unfortunately. I'm embarrassed to admit that.

I started playing Madden back in 1993 because that was the first year I actually made it into the game and that was a big thrill. When you're in Madden, you've made it, baby.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!

With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be.

Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.

I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.

I don't pick on anybody who has a number above 30.

Karch inspired his partners, his opponents and the world of volleyball players to be better than they were, to be great... In the end, who could do more for a sport than that?

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.

When I'm on with my putting, I'm as good a putter as there is, probably.

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.

As for my country, I don't live there, but obviously I'm very proud to be Canadian.

I work 12 to 14 hours a day, and in the spare time I do sport.

I am addicted to sport. Without sport, I feel bad.

Walking in high heels should be made an Olympic sport.

I like to go wakeboarding. It's my new favorite sport. It's like skiing but on a snowboard that has little shoes on it.

I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.

Yeah, I'm not into sports. If someone told me I had athlete's foot, I'd say that's not my foot!

I met a guy yesterday, 7 feet tall. Yeah, handsome, great big guy, 7 feet tall! ... I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.

As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.