Sports Quotes

Public shaming is a blood sport that has to stop.

I've always been into sports and being physical.

I sought the advice and cooperation from all those around me- but not permission.

Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.

I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.

When I say my mission is to make polo bigger, I don't expect it to be baseball, but for sure to bring the attention of a lot more people to the sport.

I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.

One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.

Our players are mad, but it's good mad.

I don't look at sports as something which merely tones up the body. I look at it as a tool of education that stimulates the mind and brings in a culture of discipline.

If sports do not hold significance in our life, we cannot nurture sportsman spirit as a "Sanskar" in our society and without such "Sanskars", the society cannot flourish!

Sports must become an indispensable and inseparable part of our social life. Competitiveness is just a by-product.

What they call "play" (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.

I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.

I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.

Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.

You're actually inside the surfboard... you're inside the landscape around you and the ocean is surging, you get totally inside the moment and it's so intense that time disappears, you disappear.

All the athletes are individuals. This isn't a team sport. We all have our own styles, our own clothing preferences and our own way of doing things. That's the way I do things and I'm proud of it.

Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians.

There's no doubt that he's the biggest sports star in the world now. (on David Beckham)

Whether you want to be the best at your job, or at sports, just do your best. Give it everything you have.

If you want information about sports, I can tell you things from the 1940's, and the couple years that my grandson was kind of a jock, but nothing in between.

I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career.

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.

And that's what makes this a great game, is the support and the commitment that the fans give the game.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.

With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.

I got married, going to become father soon, being No. 1 in the sport that I love with all my heart. I mean, it's pretty awesome.

Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.

I try to help my athletes visualize their full potential, and then get out of the way as they achieve it.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

In short, it's a great economy if you're a high-level corporate executive or someone who owns a lot of stock. For most other Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

Sport has long occupied a special place in the hearts of Australians, and today the nation welcomes a new champion to the pantheon. Cadel Evans, cyclist extraordinaire.

Assuredly, the size of (Cadel) Evans' heart will come to be compared to Phar Lap.

Being a sport star and a chef both require passion, commitment, work and natural ability.

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.

There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago.