Quotes About Sports

I love everything Minnesota.

I know they like their sports in Minnesota.

The fighting in the NHL, especially, and, I think, in some of the minor leagues, it's usually the loudest and the most excited the crowd gets during the entire the game.

The pay in the minor leagues, I think it's terrible, it's disgusting, it's exploitative.

When I was growing up, I always had the dream of being an analyst for a minor league baseball team or something like that.

Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.

I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.

Cheerleading gave me a love of sports, which I brought to the Senate. I can talk to the good ol' boys about college sports because I follow it like they do.

I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important -- like a league game or something.

The game is changing so much. It's not the same game anymore and I don't know, I don't like it. And the money that they're giving these people -- they don't have to workout with their pads two days in a row. Their antics, it's not for me anymore, sorry to say.

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

We're not doing outrageous fashion I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

On cutting off beer sales after the eighth inning: "Anybody who can't get drunk at the ball game before the eighth inning doesn't belong here.

Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.

Ed. Note: really, really, REALLY not smart to do this in bar full of giant Liverpool fans

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Chemical cheating will be decisively routed when fans become properly repelled by it. They will recoil in disgust when they understand that athletes who are chemically propelled to victory do not merely overvalue winning, they misunderstand why winning is properly valued.

I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out.