Quotes About Sports

When we had a good relationship between North Korea and South Korea, we always connected with sports.

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

When I have political discussions with my friends, I piss them off because my personal position is that there's no difference between the parties. It's the Red Sox and the Mets.

There's so much passion and so much interest in the Red Sox in Boston.

The Boston Red Sox, they love to compete.

New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports. But Red Sox Nation is Red Sox Nation.

I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.

I'm a White Sox fan, and the Blackhawks.

When the Red Sox spent $300million on Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford, Liverpool fans were irate. It actually should have been Boston fans.

Sports culture is not PC or far left. There are no safe spaces in the field of competition.

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

Every country wants to protect its athletes because it's ultimately Germany vs. Spain, America vs. China; sports are an extension of the government because of national pride.

In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.

It's true that the training and mentality in Spain is totally different to how it is in France.

Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.

She seemed rather an airy sprite, which, after playing its fantastic sports for a little while upon the cottage floor, would flit away with a mocking smile. Whenever that look appeared in her wild, bright, deeply black eyes, it invested her with a strange remoteness and intangibility; it was as if she were hovering in the air and might vanish, like a glimmering light, that comes we know not whence, and goes we know not whither.

Stanley was right. I never hit another home run. I struck out most of the time. But they always remembered that home run and while they still hated me, it was a better kind of hatred, like they weren't quite sure why. Football

I definitely went through a period where I don't want to say I hated myself, but I hated what I saw in the mirror. I would try to cover it up, and it wasn't until I started doing sports - until after London 2012 - that I kind of started getting more of that confidence in my body and appreciating my body.

I made my kids into Viking fans, so they will carry their misery with them, too. A little disappointment in life goes a long way.

Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.

The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.

Of course, I love football, but I'm not one of those die-hard fans that never miss a game or with rooms devoted to team colors. At the end of the day, it's just a game.

My folks, I don't think my mom or my dad ever missed a little league game or a football game.