Quotes About Sports

American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.

To write long pieces - or not even long pieces - to write stuff like the columns of Red Smith and people like that - they're different then what it is today. Everything today is based on x's and o's. Inside baseball, it's all, 'Who's gonna win?' or you're comparing things - it's not as thoughtful as it used to be.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'

I don't want to get punched in the head anymore. I spent a couple of thousand dollars on the nose and teeth and everything's been readjusted, so I don't want anybody hitting me.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

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

The flanneled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals.

I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college.

Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football.

Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.

The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

Real ballplayers pass the stuffing by rolling it up in a ball and batting it across the table with a turkey leg.

Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away

Every time you sustain a head injury, the risk gets higher and higher. I always said that if there ever was a point where the risk was more than minimal, I would stop playing.

In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

You can see the ball go past them, or the man, but you'll never see both man and ball go past at the same time. So if the ball goes past, the man won't, or if the man goes past they'll take the ball.