Quotes About Sports

I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.

If it all ended on our shores that would be serious enough, indeed, as our idol worship of famous, rich actors and sports figures is not a sign of an emotionally healthy, let alone morally strong, nation.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.

For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.

from some of the Yankees when they all went to a baseball game together.

I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

The games and sports of the playground and streets was one registration carried with us as long as we live. Our conduct, strategies, and tactics, our ranking and comradeship. Our wins and losses.

Contempt of the defeated for the victor, seemingly a perverse response, is a loser's sentiment—denying admission of its own fault or failure and believing itself robbed of victory by some malign mischance, as in sports when a gust of wind might divert the throw of a ball, giving victory to the opponent.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

Americans did very little ski jumping until the television program "Wide World of Sports" began showing a promotional film snippet in which a ski jumper hurtles off the edge of the chute, completely out of control, with various important organs flying out of his body.... Fitness buffs saw this and realized that any activity with such great potential for being fatal must be very good for you, so the sport began to catch on.

Mankind's yearning to engage in sports is older than recorded history, dating back to the time millions of years ago, when the first primitive man picked up a crude club and a round rock, tossed the rock into the air, and whomped the club into the sloping forehead of the first primitive umpire.

A golf course is nothing but a poolroom moved outdoors.

My heart went into triple time, like that burst you get when you realize the ball is going over the heads of all the outfielders.

I think baseball was really reality when I was a freshman in high school.

Covering the NBA is about covering people. I think that's why it's sometimes compared to a reality show - because you actually get the chance to know the characters, not just the teams.

I can do a dance, adventure, or sports-based reality shows. But I cannot live in a locked house because I'm very moody.

I have always been on television in cricket hosting, anchoring reality shows.

If reality TV is bad, so is Colosseum, so are the gladiators, so are sports. I think cricket is bad. But that's a point of view.

I stopped playing online poker due to a combination of the UIGEA legislation and realizing that I could make more money with less effort by betting sports.

I have had a moment where, well actually a couple moments, where people in the realm of sports have confided in me.

The reason why people love T20 is the sixes and fours.

This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.