Quotes About Sports

My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.

I have two older sisters who were phenomenal sportsmen.

I grew up watching my sisters and seeing kids at the local mountain hit jumps. After I hit my first jump, I knew this was something I was going to pursue.

I was helped by the fact that my dad is a cricket fanatic and that my three brothers and two sisters all played. It's just part of our family.

I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30' had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.

My father gave me some Jack Nicklaus MacGregor clubs when I was six years old. He cut down some of the shafts, but they were men's clubs, so they were heavy.

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.

My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.

A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.

I grew up playing rugby and I kind of never lost the muscle size.

People say the seats at sporting events are too small. My response is, 'That's why we're trying to work on the size of your rear end!'

Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.

I love going to football matches, the skate park, and music festivals.

I guess I'd be nervous to skate and do hockey. Growing up in Hawaii there's not a lot of ice.

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.

When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.

California just does not remotely embrace the fact that it's where skateboarding itself was birthed and where 90% of the industry is.

I want to inspire the next generation of athletes, not just figure skaters.