Quotes About Sports

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.

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.

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

Politics and football don't mix.

It is great that soccer can unite people for one day. It is something politics has often tried, and we were able to do it today. All people became brothers.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.

Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know?

Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.

It's my personal opinion, and I firmly believe, that it's important that I keep sports and politics separate.

I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.

I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.

The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it.

No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

I learned early in sports that to be effective - for a player to play the best he can play - is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.