Quotes About Sports

Anytime a guy gets traded at midseason - a young player - it's surprising.

I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.

Some people want to stay with one team but they get traded.

We understand the realities of the sports world. Take Shaq for example, he was traded from here and went on to several other teams after that. But once he was retired, he asked us to retire his jersey. He wanted to be remembered as a Laker.

The NBA is sometimes a crazy business, and we've seen crazy trades and crazy stuff happening the same night of the draft.

I play baseball. I don't deal with trades, free agency, any of that stuff.

Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun.

Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.

The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together.

Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of going out and playing home run derby with my old man, we just watched wrestling together.

I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.

If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.

Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.

As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived.

I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

I'm not only grumpy, I'm also short and wide. Actually, if people want to be mean, they can call me fat and be close to right. Short wide guys normally don't have much a chance in sports. But I have two things going for me: I don't feel pain and I have quick hands.

For some of Europe's indebted clubs, match fixing is part of the business plan.

If you're good at providing schools for everyone, as most democracies are, then you are probably also good at providing good soccer fields and coaches for everyone.

Do you remember being at school and picking sides for a game of football? We do this at Liverpool for the five-a-sides. Diouf was 'last pick' within a few weeks.

The new globalized sports fan will happily snub his local domestic league.