Quotes About Sports

My dad was a high school and college coach, and in my house my dad muted sideline reporters because he wasn't interested in what they had to say.

I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.

Sideline reporting was a great way to be a part of the game and develop relationships, but it's no big secret that it's relatively limiting.

Thanks to fantasy football and 'Madden' on Xbox Live there are legions of jersey adorning sports fanatics who think they're equipped to stand on the sideline with a headset.

Women in sports television are allowed to read headlines, patrols sidelines, and generally facilitate conversation for their male colleagues. Sometimes, they even let us monitor the Internet from a couch.

You know who I like the way he celebrates is Peyton. He kind of gives the guy a handshake and goes back to the sidelines. I think that's a great celebration right there.

You don't have a real rivalry unless both sides are great teams.

The owners of the Premier League sides are like in the NBA, they're not millionaires, they're billionaires.

The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet.

And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.

Eric has pro athletes on both sides of his family - plus, I used to play sports - so I'm sure our son will develop athletic ability.

I think a lot of people fail to work on their sight, even though it's probably one of the most important sides to tennis. It's also about reactions and concentration and focus, and I think it's all very closely related.

People must not lose sight of the fact that football is a game. I would find it healthy that it remain so.

An out-and-out fast bowler is one of the great sights in cricket.

Goal-line technology is a good thing. The ref gets the signal and can decide based on that.

My signature move is the ballin' elbow, because I'm a baller.

The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.

I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.

I play the game and I understand what's going to happen; you get banged up. But you signed up for it.

What made it so special was the city of Houston had never won a sports championship. I think the championship changed people's thinking about their own city. It made them feel like their city had some significance that it hadn't had before.

For years, the NFL was the one league apparently immune from ratings downturns of any significance.

When I was growing up Harlequins were interested in signing me because I was very fast and strong at an early age, but I wasn't interested in rugby at the time.

When I get on TV, I'm going to be talking about a silly basketball game, and I'm going to be having a lot of fun doing it. But I'm very aware of all the social stuff going on.

When kids my age were crying over girls, my first heartbreak was not because of some silly school time crush but because I lost out on playing for Delhi's Under 14 team, even after I was selected in the playing eleven.