Quotes About Sports

When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up their racquets and fiddle around. Check out how the racquet was made... toss it around to see how light it was! At the time, I didn't even know I'd play badminton.

I really liked sports and athletic stuff, but I was a total nerd.

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that's what I thought I was going to do - be an ice-hockey player.

Outside the Olympics, there are massive discrepancies within all sports. But the positive side for me is that the Olympics are the biggest platform there is, and there's total equality across all sports.

I go running. It gives me a better perspective on my problems and helps me find solutions." • "I allow myself one hour to feel sorry for myself and I cry." • "I take a bath, read my journal, and sleep." • "I play ball." • "I lift weights to release the endorphins." • "Helping others helps you forget about your own problems." • "I just get out of the house.

least seventy-two inches tall to be allowed on the ride, and each inch you push over that is probably better for you. There comes a point, however, when height just doesn't matter much anymore. Just because someone is seven feet tall doesn't mean he's a better player than someone who's six foot six (Michael Jordan's height). The point is you only have to be tall enough to have a shot at the pros.

Most sports enforce age cut-offs—that is, the ages that determine whether you can play another year in your current age bracket as a "senior," or whether you have to move up and be a "freshman" in the next. In

I'm the kind of guy that if I don't work out, I will get bigger and look like one of the guys who used to play sports.

I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.

Uno de estos presagios, malinterpretado en extremo e incluso fomentado y elogiado públicamente, fue la obsesión por el deporte que se adueñó de la juventud alemana en aquella época.

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.

I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

We've just got to be careful - with all sports, let alone cricket - I think there's so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.

I'm not naming my child after a sports person. No Tom Brady Kowalski. No Derek Jeter or whatever Kowalski." "Jesus, Beth." He almost ran off the road. "Jeter's a freakin' Yankee. I wouldn't even name an ugly, three-legged, one-eyed, rabid and mangy dog I hated Jeter, never mind my own son. Whatever you do, don't ever talk sports with anybody at Jasper's.

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience.

Renaud Lavoie, a reporter with rds, the French-language sports network, said he was amazed by how quickly Crosby learned French and that he continued to practise it.

But in fact, blacks ran into all manner of discrimination in sports and music. They simply would not be deterred. Their excellence and merit ultimately prevailed over all else.

People wrongly dismiss black achievement in these areas for reasons that can be ascribed only to racism—that our compelling excellence follows from a mere genetic advantage. The fact is that we are good at sports and music because we subject ourselves to unforgiving standards of excellence and then work ferociously to meet those standards. Ruthlessly, we allow absolutely no excuses.

I'm a Lakers fan. Kevin Garnett is my favorite player of all time because of his passion for the game.

Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.