Quotes About Sports

Tokyo 2020 was an Olympic Games of many firsts for India. The success of Team India at the Olympics is a reflection of how New India desires and aspires to dominate the world... even in sports.

Sports culture has long been patriotic, tolerant of diverse backgrounds and perspective and celebratory of meritocracy.

Sports exact too harsh a toll on our beautiful women. Like engendered species, they should be protected, and instead, we exploit them and demand they fly too close to the sun for our amusement. We send them into the arena for an exhausting three-setter, an 18-hole playoff, a 200th lap. The burnout factor is insurmountable.

When you've been playing the game for so long and sports for so long, it can take a toll on your body, and that's what we're putting on the line, and that's what our argument is as players when we're doing negotiations and stuff like that.

In sports, failure is outwardly observable, which is to say it is a sign—look, there it is, the tennis ball that bounced twice. In the rest of life, failure is mostly complex, nuanced, secret.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

Seven hours of commercial-free football start now!

Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books.

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.

I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

Golf is the crack of sports. If you hit five good shots, you know you can hit six good shots. The next time you hit six good shots, you know you can hit seven.

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

I've been playing golf a long time, although it's not really true that on my first round they strapped my bag on the back of a dinosaur.

The player had almost as much fun as the parent and coaches. This league is well worth the time the professionals put into it. I would encourage any professional to host a team.

I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.

I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic.

I think kids should be doing pickup or futsal all the time.

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.