Quotes About Sports

Unfortunately, I think there's not enough education about hydration. When I was young, we knew nothing about it. We all know that there's cases of athletes having serious issues because of dehydration and even dying.

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

Nike is the prime shoe sponsor in sports in general but definitely in skateboarding. I couldn't think of a better company I'd rather ride for. I've always thought they were such an amazing team. They've always had the best gears on their team; their product is insanely good.

For people coming in through the turnstiles and people sponsoring, we are entertainers and that's where the game is going.

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.

At the end of the day, if we don't show female sports on TV, how are sponsors going to want to sponsor women? And if we don't support the women, how do you expect us to get results? It's a bit of a catch-22.

It's difficult because the men's game is so big and attracts so much money and sponsorship, and so it's always going to take priority.

The interesting thing about football is that football is the only sport where you quit playing when you get a lead.

My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.

I've been an athlete my whole life. I've played every sport, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball.

People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now because we've added skateboarding... We're modernizing the sport.

But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.

I don't think you have to be this macho man all the time, just because you play sport.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

I was born with this heart condition, but it's never affected me - I've been able to play every sport I wanted to, and the doctors were amazed.

I was a huge boxing fan, but it's a sport where the guys punch each other in the head. I thought maybe I shouldn't be a fan of that anymore. Maybe I shouldn't allow myself to cheer a sport where the head injuries are a big part of it.

When I was in school, before age 10 I hated any kind of sport.