Quotes About Sports

I grew up watching North American sport - basketball, hockey - so I like it when it's a little bit more energetic, rowdier, heckling either for you or against you. I think it's fun to have that in sport.

Even at North Dakota State, football is a big deal.

Northern Ireland, England, Scotland - when we play each other, you don't want to lose to a neighbouring country.

Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.

That's the biggest struggle in Norway. Most of the money doesn't go to tennis.

I prefer not to compare teams because it's not fair at all.

You can't be a losing team and get a new arena. That's not fair. That's not fair! That's how I see it.

I focus on football. I'm not interested in gossip.

Nothin' will ever jump over the Jumpman... Yeezys aren't even basketball shoes. You can play in 'em, but they're not basketball shoes.

I haven't noticed too much of a difference between Italian guys and American guys, but we're sports-entertainers so maybe they know to stand back a little!

For me, it was my dream as a kid to play two sports at the highest level I possibly could. Doing that at Notre Dame just meant I had to sacrifice in ways a normal college student wouldn't have had to sacrifice.

Back then, when I was a kid, I watched Vince Carter every now and then.

Everything is social media nowadays, everything is sports and entertainment.

There is nowhere on Earth like Boston for a player.

The thing about darts is that you've got to shout. It's not like cricket where you can talk to Michael Atherton and ask him to analyse the bloody nuances. Darts does not have nuances. You've got to hurl yourself at it.

I'm a golf nut!

There is no way I could've been so durable playing in the Western Conference. The travel is nuts.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.

I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

I believe when the world faces a crisis, businesses and sports have an obligation to step up and make a difference.

There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything.

I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.

The ways in which I was obsessed with Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp 20 years ago is completely replicated by my daughters' and my crush on Marshawn Lynch and Richard Sherman now.