Quotes About Sports

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

God made ice for hockey and scotch, and that's about it.

I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to "coaching women." I remember leveling him with a death ray stare and then relaxing and curling up the corner of my mouth and saying, "Don't worry about coaching 'women.' Just go home and coach 'basketball.' 

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined.

great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.

Two motives urge fans to obsession with their sports. One is the need-—through the appeal of vicarious success—-to identify with winners. The other is to sanction, through pedantry, dogmatism, record-keeping, wise secret knowledge, and pseudo-scholarship, a claim to expertise on the subject. Sports give every man his opportunity to perform as a learned bore and to watch innumerable commentators on TV do the same.

The boys who write the sports stories knew what was going on and who was doing what. On October 12, 1927, they voted Lou Gehrig the most valuable player in the American League. You see, it was Lou Gehrig who forced the pitchers to pitch to Babe Ruth.

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.

You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.

Sustained strength is different from short-burst strength. Sustained strength is an athletic attribute particularly prized by wrestlers, boxers, mixed martial artists, football, basketball, hockey and lacrosse players. The common thread is participation in athletic events of long duration where last minute flurries make the difference between winning and losing, between 1st and 8th.

This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.

I would understand later that baseball was what truly made him an American: the sports pages were more crucial documents than the Constitution.

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.