Quotes About Sports

So, when looking at white dominance of a particular sport, white people tend to look for a social or environmental explanation, such as a strong work ethic, but when looking at black dominance of a sport, they are more likely to look for an explanation in breeding.

Because the only way to become really good at coping with the discomforts and stresses of endurance sports is to experience them.

The muscles can only perform to the degree that the mind is able to cope. Endurance sports are therefore a game of "mind over muscle.

My own term for a highly developed overall coping capacity in endurance sports is mental fitness.

It was a decision she would not regret, performing well enough right out of the gate that no further persuasion was required to convince Jamie to drop other sports and focus exclusively on running for the next three years.

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

In that crucible a new kind of newspaper was born, one that was not merely an organ of the commercial elites, but rather a mass-market medium—politically independent, designed to be read by the average person, and featuring exactly the sort of reporting that continues to mark most newspaper journalism today: crime, scandal, sports, entertainment.

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. - Earl Warren

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn.

All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

Destiny has called you to be a god. Are you hero enough for the task? Will you switch on your inner "hero program", or slink off to the shopping mall or the sports stadium and put it off for yet another day? Maybe you'll take in a movie. So much easier to watch others doing the heavy lifting, and the actors are just faking it anyway. Where are the real heroes? Where are YOU?!

Queerditch Marsh

Captain of the Hufflepuff Quidditch team

Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom.

minutes of vigorous activity (such as jogging or active sports) each day.

His family had San Francisco 49ers season tickets, and no sports fan his age could have asked for a better deal. From preschool to senior year, Brady watched his Niners go to five Super Bowls and win them all.

My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob.

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.