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Quotes About Sports

Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
~ Ted Williams
And the question about if I ever dreamed of making the putt on the last hole of a U.S. Open when I was a kid, no, I didn't. But I hit a lot of game-winning shots on the basketball court when I was a kid.
~ Gary Woodland
I do enjoy batting - if the bowling's not quick!
~ Fidel Edwards
The Premier League is a competition with very quick football.
~ Jesus Navas
I could handle the basketball but I wasn't quick enough to move defensively. Offensively, I was fine. I could get around, I could do stuff, but defensively I wasn't quick enough. I couldn't keep up. That was the biggest thing. And that was at the Division II level.
~ Gary Woodland
I obviously can't read, watch and listen to everything. But of the media members I follow, all are pro-LeBron - most of them passionately so - and most are extremely slow to criticize him and quick to give him a pass.
~ Skip Bayless
I have really good lateral movement. I've always had quick lateral movement.
~ Austin Rivers
Quickness and momentum. You take the whole last generation of sports, listening to them, even reading about them, watching the games, analyzing them, arguing about them, instant-replaying them, second-guessing them, and all you'll distill from them is quickness and momentum.
~ Frank Deford
When I was 16 I played at the Orange Bowl. I was one of the favourites to win and Boca were playing in the Intercontinental Cup against Milan. It was four in the morning in Miami and they wouldn't let me get up to watch it. I put the TV on ever so quietly, though, and watched the whole game, which went to penalties and lasted forever.
~ Juan Martin del Potro
I was a basketball player. And my mother even wanted me to quit because I hurt my leg. But I didn't know anything about football - from Pee-Wee on up, my friends would play, and I would never go with them.
~ Jason Pierre-Paul
When I started really playing music, I pretty much quit sports. I quit everything.
~ Mark Foster
I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.
~ Lee Trevino
I play quite a bit of tennis on the side.
~ Hikaru Nakamura
I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
~ Vince Vaughn
I follow the Premier League quite a lot. It's one of the best leagues in the world.
~ Gerard Deulofeu
I used to play tennis ball cricket quite a lot before playing serious cricket. Over there, you bowl yorkers. That could be the reason I bowl yorkers.
~ Jasprit Bumrah
I played number 6 in rugby league so I had the ball quite a lot. I tried to make the plays, so you are in the action.
~ Ben Stokes
A state that houses the NCAA headquarters. Quite frankly, if Indiana doesn't say that they're going to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, the NCAA needs to move out of Indiana.
~ Dannel Malloy
I have been following badminton for quite some time, and I know most of the Indian players personally.
~ Taapsee Pannu
India may be the soul of world cricket, but IPL is its commercial heart. Just as 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' changed the ground rules for quiz shows by injecting a massive dose of money into the equation, IPL has changed the dynamics of the cricket economy.
~ Vikas Swarup
I am from Jammu, but I studied in Chandigarh in sports quota.
~ Mukesh Rishi
I have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid football fan, and it's been so horrible.
~ Ruth Reichl
Most women's races don't pay much at all.
~ Lizzie Armitstead
I've always been athletic - did the 100 metres and 1500 m at school, cross-country races - and did well in them.
~ Jordan Henderson