Quotes About Sports

Georges St-Pierre is one of the greatest pound-for-pound fighters in the world.

I didn't and still don't watch sport all that often, but I did see all the Pride fights back in the day, which is when I first saw MMA and I felt that's something I really want to do.

I don't like watching long, 12-round fights, they're boring.

I don't watch a lot of featherweight fights yet some of those fights are the best fights ever.

I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.

Style makes fights; I've always said it.

Anybody who fights McGregor is going to have a good payday. He's one of the best guys in the UFC.

I literally view wrestling as the time when I was playing with action figures. You can make anything out of it. You can make it be fun.

If you look at the figures, the average age of the tennis fan is 62 years old.

In society, it's hard for some to view women getting hit. They see the women as different figures rather than as athletes and fighters.

There's a respect factor in filmmaking, like in sports, where certain things are kept in the locker room.

A Final Four would be pretty amazing.

Whenever you're playing in the Championship or League football, you know there are play-offs at the end of it. If you miss out on the top two, it's a great alternative to play in a play-off final.

It's always disappointing to lose a final.

It was really tough back then in Croatia to watch the NBA games because we were not that powerful of a country. They didn't even show the games on TV. So we were always trying to find someway to watch the games, especially the Finals.

I'm sure there are people in all sports that bend the rules but I'm not going to sit here and point the finger.

People point fingers at the leader. That happens in every sport.

Sometimes you've got to be able to finish at the rim.

It's hard for anyone in the 24-hour news cycles that we all live in now to follow something that the first round is played in March and the final finishes in December. I understand the challenges there.

Basketball will always be my first love.

Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.

Any team that lets in 50 goals should never be in second position in the first place.

I think there's something to baseball, golf, fishing that there's downtime within all of those sports. Even though you're still doing the sport and everything that's involved, there's still this time to be able to think and have conversations.

In England you get fitness from playing.