Quotes About Sports

I certainly think it's ironic that beach volleyball was first played in the 1930s in Santa Monica and tournaments of a high caliber have been happening in this country since the 1940s, and the FIVB, for many years, has ignored beach volleyball.

In many parts of this country, there is still a stigma about volleyball, that it is a sissy game, the one to go out for if you can't win a letter in anything else. People don't realize what a difference there is between the picnic game and the top level.

Everyone in my family enjoys sports and I was naturally athletic as a child. I have been cycling since I can remember, had previously represented by school in football and later my college at national level volleyball.

Now that sports science is more advanced, we know that there are so many off-pitch factors that can affect how good you can become. If people are telling you to sleep a certain number of hours, eat specific foods, and drink a certain volume of fluids, then you have to be prepared to listen and learn.

Title IX, whether voluntarily or via court cases, opened gymnasiums to women, produced uniforms and schedules and buses.

I always excelled in sports, so I knew I had advantages there. That really gave me, like, confidence and self-esteem.

I truly consider sports stars as the real stars because they represent our country, which makes them really stand apart. I don't think I can be one of them, and I just find them extremely confident and self-made.

I do watch sports. How could I not? Just for self-preservation.

Gilbert Arenas

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

Seven has always been my lucky number. It's on my guitar pick; in sports, that was always the number I was, and 'Riser' is my seventh album. With this album kind of coming to an end and having seven nominations at the ACMs, it feels like a bigger story in play for me, and it's the perfect number. I wouldn't have wanted eight!

I've experienced a lot of sexism in football.

However much I try, I can't shake off the effects of the yips.

I don't think I'm going to dwell on one pitch. You've got to be able to shake that off in the middle of the game.

If there's a problem and you want to do something after then we'll go and talk about it after, but for me you shake hands at the end of the game and get on with it.

A lot of my friends who were really sporty in year 7 and 8, in years 9 and 10 they stopped playing. It was a shame.

Men seem to relate to boys better, sharing their interests in whizzing about and football and car-cars and other moronic activities.

We at ESPN like competition. It makes us better. It makes us sharper.

When you're a kid football is, and should be, sheer enjoyment.

As a matter of fact, believe it or not guys, you can actually lose money in sports! I know that you'll find that shocking.

Usually, when I liked athletes growing up, it was because they could hit a ball very far or they can throw a ball very fast. They can shoot a jumper, or they can dunk the ball.

I have never been a shooter.

Small ball, spacing, shooting 3s, is something that everybody's trying to do.

I was a center fielder, and I played shortstop.