Quotes About Sports

I think women athletes who have been successful need to help other sports, those sports that are just emerging. That's what I've been thinking about and looking forward to.

Tennis has been around for so long - women have been playing the majors since the 1800s. Other sports have not had professional leagues for women for as long.

The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.

I think we're actually the only sport that has a mix of men and women competing together. The majority of other sports are separated by gender.

I started out as a camera operator. I was doing news, and I was doing sports - baseball games and football games. And I was acutely aware of women not really being in those roles then.

If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

Statistics are for losers.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

I never see bodybuilding on the sports page and it is not considered to be a sport because of the drug question, because of steroids, let's be honest.

I've been a baseball fan in the early part of my life, so through the '70s and the '80s, I was a huge fan. I actually followed the Dodgers back then, back in the Kirk Gibson years, Steve Garvey.

I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Sir Steve Redgrave - childhood memories are flooded with these moments and idols.

Steve Fisher did not like me at all. I was hyper-critical of him. I didn't think he was much of a coach. He just kind of rolled the ball out there and I was pretty outspoken about that. Steve Fisher and I didn't get along at all.

Good owners aren't buying franchises because they think it's a good economic deal. They're buying franchises because they're a huge fan of the sport and they want to be a steward of that team. If they just do it because of a good economic deal, they're going to be bad owners.

I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.