Quotes About Sports

Sports are, and should be, a joy. And it delights me that the joy I felt through the years of broadcasting games was projected onto the audience.

As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime.

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.

In my family, Mom can lead the sports activities, no problem! Except football - that, my husband does.

Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports.

We leaned on family, church, school, friends and sports. That's basically all we had. All those things really shaped my life and shaped me musically. It's why I write the way I do.

I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

I stopped playing video games, I stopped playing other sports, and I just dove head first into wrestling and it's been my passion ever since I discovered it.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.