Quotes About Sports

I played football when I was a kid, it is such a fun sport to play, I fancied myself as a midfielder until I grew too tall and discovered basketball.

My father was always pushing me to become a basketball player. In Africa, when you're a kid, every kid loves to play soccer, and I loved playing soccer. But my dad didn't want me playing soccer. He would joke, 'C'mon, man, you're too tall!' Then he promised me, 'If you start playing basketball, I'm going to give you my jersey.'

I used to row as a junior for Scotland but I was never massive, I was always tall and rangey.

I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I'd discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, 'Damn - I'm too old for this.'

If I had to compete against someone almost two feet taller than me, I wouldn't want to play.

The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in organized sports. Playtime—especially

That's pretty hot," he said. "Punching me in the eye?" "Well, no. Of course not. I meant the idea of getting rough with you is hot. I'm a big fan of full-contact sports." "I'm sure you are.

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replay in sports. They've already forgotten what's happened.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

In high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop.

People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game.

I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.

You can't think and hit at the same time

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

75% of baseball is mental the other half is phisical

But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play--and don't play to bring their parents glory.

Sports are 90% mental, and the other half is physical

The game has changed. You can't go into a ballgame saying, hey, we have a great defense and we'll win 17-10. Those days, I think, are generally over, except if the Ravens play the Jets.

I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.