Quotes About Sports

My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.

You're really in a bubble if you're not watching the league.

The biggest thing is getting the kid in a kart - they have to buy it and that's the biggest thing. You can go to a sporting store and buy a basketball for 30 bucks or a football for 30 bucks. You go buy a go-kart and that's 300 bucks. What are you going to get? A basketball or a go-kart?

I've been fortunate to have some great golfing buddies.

Everyone just plays football, don't they? It is just part of life in England. Once I started I just totally got the bug and never lost it.

I was always into sports and a lot of physical activities. My dad was a kickboxer and a body builder. My mom was an aerobics teacher.

In T20, batsmen are always going after you, so a good policy is to bowl five-six dot balls in your first two-three overs so that pressure builds on the batsman, and he plays riskier shots.

That comes with playing basketball, just nicks and bumps and things like that.

My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.

I started playing football when I was about six and it was sometimes hard to take the bus.

While football embarrassingly exposes the excesses of capitalism, the Olympic sports have been used to propagate the neoliberal mantra that success is simply a matter of hard work.

There have always been extraordinarily tough men in the business of sports-entertainment. My view is that one can't be in the sports-entertainment business successfully and long term without being tough.

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

To go from hit-and-miss promotions barely taking women's fighting seriously to women headlining on a regular basis, high-level fights, it's an amazing thing to see. And it happened in what I felt was a pretty quick succession - though not fast enough - as far as professional sports go. It's really exciting.

There's such a thing as retribution in sports.

As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shouldn't be playing rugby.'

I remember being, like, 5 years old, and my dad took me to a Yankees-Mets game. My dad had me on his shoulders and taught me one of the most important lessons about sports. He said, 'Jesse, just remember one thing, the Mets suck.'

I enjoyed playing the other sports. I just sucked at them.

My dad is actually from Ghana in West Africa, and I was actually born in Ghana, too, and came to the United States when I was two years old. It's always football over there, soccer, but becoming a Massachusetts native, you can't help but get sucked into all the sports.

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.

I couldn't hit a home run to save my life, and I was a sucker for the curveball.

If it has to sell its mascot, your team sucks.

If it doesn't know what to charge you for nosebleed seats, your team sucks.

High-intensity training works well for cricket because we spend long periods waiting around and then have to perform sudden sprints or dives.