Quotes About Sports

I've always had an obsession with rackets.

There is no reason why cricket shouldn't be the number one alternative to football. And at a time when there are obvious divisions in society, cricket has a great role to play in bringing people together from all sorts of diverse backgrounds and faiths.

Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.

I thought I was better at basketball, but obviously people didn't think so. But I loved them equally, whether it be baseball season, basketball, football, golf, I liked them equally.

Obviously, 'FIFA Football' was a big game for me.

Obviously you know match-fixing is out there but you don't really associate it with the English game.

A Boxing Day Test match is a fantastic occasion.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

Francesca the Football Fairy

It is otherwise with sports and the media. There, too, a shift has occurred, from active participation to the vicarious participation of spectatorship. Four people used to go bowling, but 100 million watch the Super Bowl. Football, where men try to hit and hurt, has replaced baseball as the national game. It is as if the demotion from participant to spectatorship and from live spectatorship to TV spectatorship has to be compensated by upping the ante in violence.

Base-ball is our game: the American game: I connect it with our national character.

There ain't enough happens in soccer. It's like watching twenty-two hair models kick a ball around for what seems like six months and then one of them falls over and the ball goes in the goal.

Cobb was "jabbering all over the place" and practically hornpiping with glee. "What will the Babe say about this trick by Ty, five in two games?" (The feat has been equaled by several players since but has never been surpassed.)

Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

Back in the 1930s, when men with handlebar moustaches played football in long johns and tails, and the ball was a spherical clod of bitumen, did fans weep in the stands when their team lost? No. They limited their responses to a muttered 'blast' or a muted 'hurrah' before going home to smoke a pipe and lean on the mantelpiece.

October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.

Sporting News will embrace everything except Heavyweight Boxing Championship battles. They will be found in the Financial Section.

American professional athletes are bilingual — they speak English and profanity.

You can have the nine greatest individual ball players in the world, but if they don't play together the club won't be worth a dime.

Ahhhh, welcome to the paradox of the home office. The more flexible the arrangement, especially around kids, school and sports activities… the more likely one ends up twisted like a pretzel.

I believe the two greatest words in the English language are "Play ball!"

ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. ACADEMY, n. (from academe). A modern school where football is taught.