Quotes About Sports

There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

People are lying when they say that their record being broken is good for the development of the event. I would like mine to remain as long as possible, please.

The kind of boy's club I'm used to? It is definitely not a jock-y, frat-y kind of thing. They say, 'I'm sensitive and nerdy,' but actually, it's like, 'You're a huge child and you're terrified of women, but you don't like sports, so you think that makes you less of a misogynist.'

The fans at Quicken Loans Arena are pretty hostile. They say nasty things.

Over the season, the games come thick and fast, and in some games, you aren't so lucky.

I was always a thin kid; I was an athlete.

In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.

Other people need to be forward thinkers. Not just basketball players. Not just people in the sports world. But people in general.

Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the materials of thinking, but in his sports, he actually thinks: he whets his faculties, and he opens his eyes.

I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.

The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games.

When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.

When I joined a baseball club, the boys of my own age, and a little older, played in the first nine, those younger than myself played in the second, and those still younger in the third, and I played with them.

The Caribbean is all Third World islands and it's very tough to raise the money for sports.

Thirteen was my brother's number.

I always ran very fast and jumped very high but when I was about thirteen it was more of a choice between football and tennis, and I went for tennis.

There are a lot of men playing great tennis well into their thirties.

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.

I own 60 retro jerseys. I've got everybody - the late Derrick Thomas, a lot of people.

Thomas Muller is an excellent player.

I'm from a very athletic family, and I thoroughly enjoyed sports as a kid, but acting was a way of expressing myself and having fun. It was something I found on my own.

I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore.