Quotes About Sports

Sports taught me how to compete on the court, and taught me how to compete in life. Sports and life run parallel with one another.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Don't ever think $7,000 isn't a lot of money in baseball. I've had huge arguments over a lot less.

Doubleday's First Law, which states that if you throw a fastball with insufficient speed, someone will smack it out of the park with a stick.

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.

Golf is not as much fun without a scorecard. Tennis doesn't work as well without it. Same for other sports. Somehow, though, we muddle through life without a scorecard, one that's focused on character strengths, even though most people, if they reflected on it, would agree that in the game of life, these are what truly matter most.

The pollution got so bad that the British School of Beijing installed a giant inflatable dome, complete with air locks, for sports

I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.

Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss

Soccer is a game in which everyone does a lot of running around. Twenty-one guys stand around and one guy does a tap dance with the ball.

Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

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

A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

I was a working mother, and making films is a time-consuming job, but I found time to expose children to all facets of life, all sorts of experiences. […] They learned all sorts of sports to find out what they liked the best. Helen Hayes once said that the essential thing was to introduce children to life, and then let them make their own decisions.

Sedona was thinking that watching a game when you already knew the final score must be a male thing

They only tackle you when you've got the ball.

Did he know about the doping?' Children at sports schools were given hormones under the guise of vitamins. In a scandal that has come to light since the Wall fell, the pills accelerated growth and strength, but turned the little girls halfway into boys.

I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.