Quotes About Sports

Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control.

Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

When I was ten, I won the horseshoe-throwing contest at summer camp. I was also the Wiffle ball champion in my town.

I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.

In fact, female slam-dunking as a spectator sport died this week when Candace Parker won the McDonald's All-American slam-dunk contest.

Months after I retired, the Kings won the Stanley Cup and I was there for that game... I happened to be there with a buddy of mine and I was like, 'Oh, I miss this.'

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.

I won a great giant slalom in Japan last week, and it gave me momentum for this final part of the season.

My uncle used to play cricket. I got used to the game at home. As kids we used to all wonder seeing the bats lying around the house. As we grew older, we realised what the game was all about, and then our interest in the game grew.

I turned six in 1977. Youth athletics then was nothing like this, and I wondered how things changed so much. I started looking at our societal emphasis on sports, using the most tangible metric by which we measure emphasis: money.

Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

T20 is fast-paced and a wonderful vehicle to attract wider audience. On a technical level, it probably has impacted Test cricket.

The wonderful thing about delivering sports commentary on NPR was that because it has such a broad audience, I was able to reach people who otherwise had little or no interest in sport - especially as an important part of our human culture.

A competitive HIL can do wonders for India hockey. The tournament will promote young talents and give them the opportunity to play alongside and against some of the best in the business.

I think most people don't even know what 'woo pig sooie' is if they're not a sports fan or they're not from Arkansas.

Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.

I was 7 years old and my dad gave me a wooden tennis racket.

Do women golfers say they could go out and beat Tiger Woods?

I grew up in the woods; we were either on three-wheelers or four-wheelers or we were playing basketball.

I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.

Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there's no similar flag outside The Woods Jupiter, which Tiger opened in the summer of 2015, spending a reported $8 million to make an upscale sports bar-and-restaurant in his image.

Obviously, in a sport like golf, we see Tiger Woods fall off. There's not really too much damage he can take from that, although when you watch him and he sucks, and you're like, 'God, you used to be so good but you suck now,' it's disconcerting as a fan.