Quotes About Sports

I played baseball. I kind of sucked at that. They used to call me 'The Buntmaster' because my coach never wanted me to swing.

Reverse swing is a great asset if it happens.

There had never really been a female that was breaking down a swing. So when I'd walk into a clubhouse, I'd have to explain a little bit of who I was.

I have always enjoyed bowling in England because there is some swing around, which is my strength.

I'm not someone who looks to swing the ball away majorly.

Brace yourself if you're a traditional hitting coach, I'm about to say something that will hurt your feelings. The best baseball swing is an uppercut.

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

When the ball is swinging, you really need to play close to your body.

That's how baseball works. You put some good swings on the ball and it goes out of there.

You see far more swings and misses on can't-miss football recruits than basketball blue chips.

A part of me feels very Swiss: I follow Swiss sports - curling, for example - and I support Swiss teams. I love Roger Federer.

On Sundays, I'm up at five and in the office by six. After the show, around midday, I flip the switch, and it's all family. Our kids play sports, so we're running around.

If your team is good, you watch all the games - but if they're no fun to watch? You have a plethora of options. Just switch to Netflix.

I played baseball when I was younger, but the idea of the college scholarship enticed me to switch over to softball.

I think girls have a harder time than guys do if you're switching schools. Guys don't get picked on as long as you're OK in sports.

My symbol was always a polo player because I liked sports, and polo has a stylishness to it.

I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.

Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career.

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

I can remember going to see the minor league Orioles. Until I was 15 years old, we'd go down with 3,000 people to watch them play the Syracuse Chiefs or the Jersey City Little Giants. That's what passed for Baltimore sports.

It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.

In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that baseball is not his invention, I protest against this systematic effort to rob him of his dues.

I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.

You see, in sports you have so many things that aren't expected. There's so much uncertainty. So when players find themselves in a situation where management has a great deal of integrity and they can depend on my word or anybody else's word in the organization, they feel secure. And if the players feel secure, they don't want to leave here. And if they don't want to leave here, they're going to do everything they can on the court to stay here.