Quotes About Sports

At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.

When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines Register. He was a good sports writer. I became real interested in the contrast between Lute Olson, who was the coach of Iowa at the time, and Ron Maly.

I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.

I'm stunned at some of the stuff Johnny Miller comes out with sometimes. He is very harsh and frankly I find some of the stuff he sees very disrespectful.

I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it would be stupid for me to box.

Judo was one of those sports where they give you guidelines but then try to tell you to develop your own style.

As everyone in boxing knows, styles makes fights.

A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.

My fear is with the onset of mainstream interest in extreme sports that diversity will be subdued and eventually snubbed out within our great outdoor community. Shouldn't we question when the leaders of our community try to manipulate our culture into a mono crop?

Some Kentucky fans are a little more subdued.

The best thing that you can do to break down any of the barriers that women face in sports is to be over prepared - know your value, but also know the subject matter that you're covering.

I have been thinking of many subjects to work around football, but nothing has inspired me. 'Sports' is a good subject. But, nothing has inspired me to make a film.

Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.

There are two different kinds of spectacular fighters. One is a subtle counter puncher who shows the work like chess. It's kind of an art, sports art. The other kind is when a guy has blood on all his body. That's a second kind of spectacular fighter, and people enjoy both. Both kind of fighters need to be respected.

I think a lot of fans don't know MMA that well. They don't understand the subtleties.

My constituents include CU Buffs, ski bums, techies, artists, suburban soccer moms, and proud, hard-working Colorado families.

In primitive society, when native tribes beat the ground with clubs and yelled, it was called witchcraft; today, in civilized society, it is called golf

Baseball wrong - man with four balls cannot walk

Golf, more than most games, has a number of cliches, often successfully disguised as "tips"

Golf is a game in which the slowest people in the world are those in front of you, and the fastest are those behind

One advantage of golf over bowling is that you never lose a bowling ball.

If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I hit it straight, it's a miracle.

The common methods of performance weight management work—they improve performance—and are therefore more or less required for sustained success in endurance sports. Dieting, in contrast, tends to sabotage performance, making sustained competitive success difficult or impossible.

Anticarb sentiment in the endurance sports community is an ideological spillover from the weight-loss diet culture.