Quotes About Sports

As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how to manage that and get the best out of myself.

I love sports, but I never had the temperament for it.

Whatever happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears?

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Nesseby broke new ground in other ways as well. The fixture consisted of a ski-jump, followed by a separate sprint-like cross-country race. This was the first known Nordic combination in the modern sense.

The Rockefellers were more interested in exercise, which stressed health, than in sports, which stressed pleasure.

it's important for fathers and sons to go to baseball games. It's the American way of male bonding.

On TV, talking heads wrung their hands over a lack of traditional feminine values and wondered if girls' sports were to blame. Then they cut to a commercial featuring a sexy college coed vacuuming her dorm room in her underwear.

The Nihilist intelligentzia had sustained the thesis that writing was merely a pastime like any other, an empty amusement of the writer like sports or liquor or whoring or what you will. I had never accepted that view.

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

Jeep is America's only real sports car.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.