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Quotes About Sports

The greatest coach in basketball history began his professional career coaching football players at basketball.
~ RED AUERBACH
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
~ Red Barber
Baseball is only dull to dull minds
~ Red Barber
baseball players. Football, maybe. Not baseball, not built the way they were: thick
~ Reed Farrel Coleman
Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.
~ Reggie Jackson
I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.
~ Rene Redzepi
Most sports require you to master the movements of only your own body to be successful. The combat grappling arts, such as jujitsu, require you to become the master not only of your own movement but also that of your opponent—a far more difficult and complex task.
~ Renzo Gracie
Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.
~ Retief Goosen
Traveling around, it's difficult to follow much TV. Mainly I'm somebody who watches sports.
~ Retief Goosen
I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.
~ Retief Goosen
He hit a worm burner
~ Rex Hudler
I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.
~ Richard H. Davis
Whenever anyone asks me for investment advice, I tell them to buy a diversified portfolio heavily tilted toward stocks, especially if they are young, and then scrupulously avoid reading anything in the newspaper aside from the sports section. Crossword puzzles are acceptable, but watching cable financial news networks is strictly forbidden.#
~ Richard H. Thaler
Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.
~ Richard Russo
Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man and one who'd been raised to accept life's mysteries—the Blessed Trinity, for one instance, a woman's reasoning, for another.
~ Richard Russo
I often got sword fighting and tennis confused.
~ Rick Riordan
Now, I was well aware that certain sports required certain modes of dress for protection, but I failed to see how wearing a sleeveless blouse on the course qualified as a safety hazard. God forbid the sight of my bare shoulders should send male golfers into a tizzy, knocking balls everywhere.
~ Kelley Armstrong
His weekly golf game no longer keeps his love handles in check, he's recently resorted to a slight comb-over to cover that growing bald spot, he squints to avoid wearing the bifocals he hides in his desk drawer, and he spends his days in an office filled with decades-old sports trophies.
~ Kelley Armstrong
The national sport in Ireland, apart from talking, is hurling.
~ Ken Bruen
Did she go to Washington Redskins football games, or follow the Nats baseball team?
~ Ken Follett
tennis courts.
~ Ken Follett
If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer.
~ Nelson Mandela
A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.
~ Francis Chan
College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.
~ Robert M. Hutchins