Quotes About Sports

Highbridge - everybody rap in Highbridge; everyone grew up rappin' or playing basketball.

It makes common sense that children, whose brains are rapidly developing, should not be hitting their heads hundreds of times per season.

Things that are unique and rare will cost a lot of money. Houses in East Hampton and Malibu will cost a lot of money because there just aren't that many of them. The value of sports has appreciated because it's the only thing that people have to watch live.

I don't like sitting on the bench even when it was very rare at Hull to rest during cup games.

Older readers will remember there used to be matches on Christmas Day. I remember leaving the fireside and the presents to watch matches on the day as a boy but such matches were rare by the time I began playing.

I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

I was a rink rat growing up. I was a goalie and my father was a busy father of five, so he would come when he could. When he did show up, I'd look up and there he would be.

I rate the EPL a bit higher than the Bundesliga.

If a rating is bad in another sport, do you see a writer say, 'This sport's over?' No.

Great fights means great TV ratings.

If we have close, great racing like we have, then the ratings will take care of themselves.

'Monday Night Football' is a competitor to 'Monday Night Raw.'

I knew Dave Raymond, who was the original Phillie Phanatic.

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.

Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.

You see a lot of depression among injured sports stars who would rather be reaching their goals or at least doing what they love doing.

I don't have any problem with tackles or duels, but I react when I notice that someone is only trying to kick me out of the game. But I never have the intention to hurt anyone. Everything is forgotten again a minute later.

I rate Dave Luiz as a top defender. He's very clever. But I don't know if he's as quick as me. And if he kicks me, he kicks me. It's fine. I can't react to anything.

I try to take the mental aspects of every sport that I've ever played and use it toward kicking, how to react in certain situations.

It just goes to show how much the women's game has improved over the years: there are some outstanding goalkeepers capable of fantastic reaction saves.

My best pitch is my fastball. It's probably the most difficult pitch to hit. In my case, batters have very little reaction time.

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

I was playing college football, and I hurt my knee very badly my senior year, and I didn't want to get a real job.