Quotes About Sports

To be honest, I never thought I'd be famous for baseball. I want to play basketball, and I could also do both basketball and baseball - but I really want to play basketball.

Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open.

You think when gym teachers were younger, they're thinking, "You know, I want to teach...but I don't want to read. How about kickball for 40 years?"

Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us play and see us in action, but they also want to interact with us.

Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can get them to be just as firm as you want and need.

When you're a little kid, you want the ball. You don't want to play defense. When you get the ball, basically you can do whatever you want.

My boyfriend loves golf and he is good at it but I am not that great at it. It drives me nuts, but I'm super competitive and I always want to win.

You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.

There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be athletes.

I keep getting these extraordinary letters, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.

After I graduated from Harvard, I enrolled in the school of journalism at Columbia University. I did that for my dad. He wanted his son to be a journalist. I disappointed him. I wrote about sports instead.

writing is like dancing, or sports, where the expression of grace come only through movement.

I was in Little League. I was on first base: I stole third. I ran straight across the diamond. Earlier in the week, I learned the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I argued with the ump that second base was out of my way.

Why doesn't the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?

All football, hockey and soccer teams would now have to wear tutus." Brian continued. "Well, I like baseball, and we don't have to wear tutus because we don't beat up on each other." "Well put, son." I gave him the thumbs up, while picturing both dugouts racing out onto the field in pink and blue taffeta tutus as they lit into each other in a massive brawl over a bad call at first base.

Love of sports will always break your heart, but in doing so, it reminds us we have one.

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

That's something I never want to do: I never want to think I know it all, because I don't. There's always more people with more advice, and I just want to soak all that up and make my sporting toolbox as full as I can get it.

Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.

My dad was a soccer player. He didn't know anything about basketball - nothing.

I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.