Quotes About Sports

You know it's gone to hell, when the best rapper out there is a white guy and the best golfer is a black guy.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots." - On North Carolina missing 22 of its last 23 shots in losing to Georgetown in the NCAA tournament.

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

The Blue Hose of Presbyterian College and the Ichabods of Washburn University are perhaps the most amusing nicknames in collegiate sports; Blue Hose refers to stockings, not to melancholy courtesans.

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.

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More people play soccer than the four of those sports put together, and the World Cup pits all nations against all nations, with almost every country on earth competing during the four years of qualifying that lead to the final tournament. As

Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.

Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always meant I was perhaps a little too heavy-handed for football. Somehow it left me feeling unfulfilled.

There is too much unhappiness in football, no?

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

Everyone wants to see the heavyweight division unified. It'll happen.

It was a no-brainer to get the Unified snowboarding race into X Games.

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform.

Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform.

I really enjoyed my time playing in a Browns uniform.

Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em.